Turkey denies reports that its army has opened fire on "elements of Coalition countries and non-gov orgs."
US patrol traveling in northeast Syria today "witnessed multiple artillery strikes" that landed within 1km of the road but was unharmed, @CJTFOIR spokes tells. Comes after Russian Defense Ministry said American units came under fire near Tel Tamir on the M4 highway
According to the reports by Sputnik International: The US has informed Russia that American military convoy was attacked by Turkish-backed militant near Tell Tamer, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated on Sunday.
Commenting on this development, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation also reported that no US servicemen were injured during the attack.
“Via de-confliction line [we received an] information that a column of American troops moving on M4 road toward the Iraqi border, 6 kilometres west of Tell Tamer, came under fire from the territory controlled by pro-Turkish militants of the Free Syrian Army,” Maj.Gen. Yuri Borenkov, the head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria.
According to Borenkov, there were no casualties.
According to the reports by Sputnik International: The US has informed Russia that American military convoy was attacked by Turkish-backed militant near Tell Tamer, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated on Sunday.
Commenting on this development, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation also reported that no US servicemen were injured during the attack.
“Via de-confliction line [we received an] information that a column of American troops moving on M4 road toward the Iraqi border, 6 kilometres west of Tell Tamer, came under fire from the territory controlled by pro-Turkish militants of the Free Syrian Army,” Maj.Gen. Yuri Borenkov, the head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria.
According to Borenkov, there were no casualties.
Earlier in the day, the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA has posted a video allegedly showing a convoy of American military moving toward the Iraqi border.
In October, US President Donald Trump announced that the US troops had begun pulling out from northern Syria to Iraq. The same month Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria to clear the area of Kurdish units and Daesh*.
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