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    Top U.S. commander for Mideast made secret trip to Syrian Kurdistan

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    Top U.S. commander for Mideast made secret trip to Syrian Kurdistan Empty Top U.S. commander for Mideast made secret trip to Syrian Kurdistan

    Post by Rocky Sat 25 Feb 2017, 3:42 am

    Top U.S. commander for Mideast made secret trip to Syrian Kurdistan
    Posted on February 25, 2017 by Editorial Staff in Kurdistan
    Top U.S. commander for Mideast made secret trip to Syrian Kurdistan US-army-commander-gen-Joseph-L-Votel-2015-photo-US-army
    U.S. Special Operations Command Commander Gen. Joseph L. Votel. Photo: Sgt. Andrew Kuhn/U.S. Army
    QAMISHLO, Syrian Kurdistan,— The top US military commander for the Middle East made a secret trip to Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria) Friday to meet a US-backed alliance fighting the Islamic State group, the alliance’s spokesman said.
    General Joseph Votel, who heads US Central Command (Centcom), met with leaders from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF in the first such trip under the new US administration.
    SDF spokesman Talal Sello told AFP that Votel “discussed the increase of coordination and support (to the SDF) in the era of Donald Trump”.

    “There were promises of heavy weapons in future stages,” Sello said.
    In an online statement, Sello said Votel had met with several SDF commanders.
    “The results were positive. We discussed the developments in the Euphrates Rage campaign and shared military matters,” Sello said.
    He described the meeting as “confirmation of US support for our forces”.
    An SDF source told AFP the visit lasted four hours.
    According to a senior source in the SDF, “Votel confirmed the coalition’s commitment to protecting Manbij from any attacks waged by Turkey or supported by it, as part of its previous commitment to protecting the area.”
    Manjib is a city in Aleppo province.
    “We did not discuss opening corridors for Turkish-backed forces to enter areas under our control,” the source said.
    The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Votel made a similar trip to Syria in May 2016, meeting with SDF commanders as well as US military advisers working alongside them.
    But this is his first trip under Trump’s administration.
    Founded in October 2015, the SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters that has seized swathes of territory from IS across northern Syria.
    The United States has special operations forces advising the SDF on the ground in Syria, but no combat units.
    On Wednesday, Votel told journalists travelling with him in the Middle East that more US troops might be needed in Syria, although he stressed local forces would be the primary force.
    “I am very concerned about maintaining momentum,” Votel said, in comments reported by the New York Times and other outlets.
    “It could be that we take on a larger burden ourselves.”
    U.S regards the Kurdish PYD and its powerful military wing YPG of Syrian Kurdistan as key ally against Islamic State and the most effective fighting force against IS in Syria and has provided them with arms, air support as well as the military advisers. The Kurdish militia has seized swathes of Syria from IS.
    Syrian Kurdistan’s ruling PYD has established three autonomous zones, or Cantons of Jazeera, Kobani and Afrin and a Kurdish government across Syrian Kurdistan in 2013. On March 17, 2016 Syria’s Kurds declared a federal region in Syrian Kurdistan.
    Syrian Kurds on Dec. 30, 2016 have approved a blueprint for a system of federal government in Syrian Kurdistan, reaffirming their plans for autonomy in areas they have controlled during the civil war.

    http://ekurd.net/us-commander-syrian-kurdistan-2-2017-02-25
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