Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called for 'the withdrawal of all Turkish, American and other illegal forces from the all- Syrian territory.'
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has informed a visiting Russian delegation that his country was prepared to force out any uninvited guests, especially the armed forces of Turkey and the United States, which themselves recently fell on opposing ends of an eight-year civil war.
Last week, Turkey mobilized Syrian rebels to storm the region and defeat Kurdish forces that participated in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State militant group but were viewed as terrorists by Ankara. Syrian soldiers raise a national flag and an image of President Bashar al-Assad at Tabqa air base in northern Syria's Raqqa region, Oct. 16, 2019. The city of Raqqa was once ISIS' de facto capital but was later taken by the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which have since partnered with the Syrian government in the wake of Trump's withdrawal and Turkey's attack.Both Turkey and the U.S.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had long threatened a larger operation intended to secure the entirety of the border with Syria and came up with the idea of a roughly 20-mile"safe zone" to expel the YPG and resettle scores of mainly Sunni Muslim Arab refugees that fled the war. President Donald Trump had signaled a desire to withdraw from Syria, but his administration also sought to defuse Turkish-Kurdish tensions by establishing a U.S. military presence at the border.
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