The United States has no plans to pull out troops stationed near the town of Manbij in northern Syria despite warnings from Turkey to remove its forces immediately.
The US Central Command chief General Joseph Votel said on Sunday during a recent trip to the Middle East that pulling US forces from Manbij was “not something we are looking into,” CNN’s website reported.
The United States has around 2,000 military personnel in northern Syria supporting the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is an alliance of militias in northern and eastern Syria and largely dominated by Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Turkey, which considers the YPG to be a terrorist organization, has called on Washington to end its military support for the group and to pull back from Manbij, where some of its troops are stationed.
This is while US officials regard the YPG as the most effective fighting force against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist…