The US Is Furious Turkey Published Location Of US Troops In Syria

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US officials accused Turkey Wednesday of putting US troops at risk after Turkey’s state-owned news agency published the locations of 10 previously secret US military outposts in Syria.

US military officials called the publication a security breach that could endanger US troops, and State Department officials said they’d expressed those concerns to Turkish officials.

“We've raised our strong concerns with publication of this information with senior Turkish government officials, as we do any time we have concerns about risks to US military or civilian personnel,” one official told BuzzFeed News.

The list, published Tuesday by the Anadolu news agency, detailed not just the location of US bases in Syria, but also provided the approximate number of US troops at each location – information the US has to date refused to divulge. It also provided information about French troops posted alongside them. Turkish officials verified the accuracy of the Anadolu list to The Daily Beast.

The report said Anadolu reporters spotted the bases during reporting trips to Syria. The US military said it has not yet determined the source of the information.

US officials privately interpreted the publication as an expression of Turkey’s anger over the US conduct of its war against ISIS, in particular, the US alliance with Kurdish forces that Turkey says are aligned with separatists who’ve been waging a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.

The US denies working with the separatists, saying it’s providing support only to the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-created force that consists of both Kurdish and Arab fighters but that is widely acknowledged to be led by the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia the Turks say is an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, the Turkish separatist movement. The PKK has been designated a terrorist organization by the US, the European Union, and Turkey.

The Anadolu report gave little credence to US assertions about the SDF's independence. “Despite the fact that the militants were given SDF uniforms, some of them wear uniforms with banners of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed head of PKK terrorist organization in Turkey,” the report said.

The US has deployed more than 1,000 US troops across Syria to advise, train and provide artillery and aerial support to the SDF push to capture Raqqa, ISIS’s Syrian capital. US officials stressed that they already have robust security measures in place, but the US military has cited security precautions previously in declining to release details of the US deployment.







https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson...f-us-troops-in?utm_term=.tmAandOE2#.iggjde3DG



oh not in the article but, they also revealed the location of french and British SF
 
got any links besides "buzzfeed?"

not saying its not true but those guys have a shit reputation
 
got any links besides "buzzfeed?"

not saying its not true but those guys have a shit reputation


true, but it was on my military board....which im just saying...



they posted this and you really think that the case? its turkey...
 
I hope this doesn't lead to any loss of life for western forces but honestly they shouldn't be there in the first place.
 
Well, it is not like the Syrians don't know where the Americans are. The Russian have satellites that give them that information and it is passed on to the Syrian military.
 
I hope this doesn't lead to any loss of life for western forces but honestly they shouldn't be there in the first place.


ir probably will because they dont give a fuck
 
Same questions as always:

Why are they still in NATO?

We get our nukes out yet?
 
This does not compare to the jimmies rustled by USA when we totally destabilized the whole region in the first place. Who are we to complain?
 
Gaylord Bannon would have leaked it eventually.
 
Would it hurt to launch a couple of ICBMs into Ankara?
 
I really, really hope we tricked some suspected leaker and that those locations of US troops aren't actually true.

This is pathetic
 
I really, really hope we tricked some suspected leaker and that those locations of US troops aren't actually true.

This is pathetic
They would give him a the Chelsea Manning treatment. Paid for by tax payers of course.
 
Erdogan is trying to force the West to go into full confrontation mode so that He can say "See, they are our enemies!!1!" and go full caliphate.

I think he will get his wish.
 
This does not compare to the jimmies rustled by USA when we totally destabilized the whole region in the first place. Who are we to complain?

Ask the Saudis, they're the ones who wanted us in there in the first place. The US is acting like Saudi's henchman. We conflict with nations they wish to overthrow, and out diplomats ignore their atrocities in Yemen, and human rights issues.

The prevailing reason is Assad backed Russia/Iran in a Nat Gas Pipeline squabble. So they mass imported a proxy "rebel" army to fight Assad.
 
Mmmh with friends like these is there anything we cannot do?
 
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