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Trump’s Policies Are Putting The Screws To Israel

JANUARY 20, 2018

The US policies in the Middle East have increasingly exacerbated the tensions in the region, turning it into a cauldron of conflict. Under first Bush and then Obama, the US’s interventionist policies dramatically increased both the incidence of terrorism as well as funded wars that increasingly appear to be without end.

And now, Trump appears to be following in the footsteps of his Presidential predecessors. His recent declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, followed by his announcement of savage cuts to UNRWA, which provides support to the Palestinian refugees, can only serve to further endanger peace in the Middle East. And while Trump publicly declares his love and support for Israel (and what American President has not?), these two decisions pave the way for further conflict and also for endangerment of Israel.

The Jerusalem announcement resulted in protesters clashing with Israeli defense forces. More missiles were launched against the Southern Israeli city of Sderot and in retaliation, IDF planes struck Hamas military targets. Protests also ignited in numerous cities across the Muslim world as people took to the streets in Jordan’s capital of Amman, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

The second action by Trump, cutting US aid to UNRWA by over one half can only have devastating consequences for the Palestinian refugee population and will very likely increase terror attacks against Israel. The UNRWA supports and administers 363 schools serving 311,071 pupils, 65 health facilities with over 5.2 million patient visits last year. According to the UNRWA, there are 2,158,277 Palestinian refugees. Many of the refugees served by the agency are in Displaced Persons camps, which are known to be hotbeds of terrorist activities. Cut the funds and it is predicted that terrorism against Israel will increase.

According to intelligence historian and former DOJ prosecutor John Loftus, the US’s support of the state of Israel has been two-faced all along. Writing in the introduction to his 1994 bestseller, The Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus baldly states that

The major powers of the world have repeatedly planned covert operations to bring about the partial or total destruction of Israel.

The US purports, consistently and rather loudly, to be a friend of the Jewish state, providing military aid in the billions each year. However, the US’s policies have generally resulted in outright sabotage to the security of Israel and in intelligence aid to Israel’s enemies. A couple recent examples include the Iran nuclear deal as well as the order from President Obama to pull back on the tunnel destructions during 2014 Operation Protective Edge. The tunnels were providing access into Israel from Gaza and inexplicably, Obama ordered Netanyahu to stop destroying the tunnels. Even more inexplicably, Netanyahu obeyed Obama’s order.

The recent actions by Trump again show the two faces of the US’s friendship with Israel, actions which on the surface may appear to be supportive of the Jewish state while the repercussions are clearly only increasing conflict and insecurity.

A recent HAARETZ article, entitled “Israeli Army Warns: Danger of Violence Escalating into War Is Growing,” discussed the present threat assessment.

The article was published prior to the UNRWA announcement, which is generally seen as a potential fuse to a tinder box. Speaking on conditions of anonymity, a captain in the Israeli army recently admitted to this reporter that the reserves are being called up in Israel. Reserves are always called up in preparation for war.

Janet Phelan is an investigative journalist and author of the groundbreaking exposé, EXILE. Her articles previously appeared in such mainstream venues as the Los Angeles Times, Orange Coast Magazine, Long Beach Press Telegram, etc. In 2004, Janet “jumped ship” and now exclusively writes for independent media. She is also the author of two collections of poetry—The Hitler Poems and Held Captive. She resides abroad.

Image credit

(activistpost.com)

By Matt Agorist

Vero Beach, FL — Stalking is defined as a criminal activity consisting of the repeated following and harassing of another person. Stalking is a distinctive form of criminal activity composed of a series of actions that taken individually might constitute legal behavior, like writing notes or sending flowers. However, when they are compounded to instill fear or intimidation, these actions become illegal. Because of anti-stalking laws, people who are victims of stalking are told to call the police. But what happens when the stalkers are the police?

An Indian River County man is finding out how tough it can be to get justice as a victim of stalking — because his stalkers are cops. This innocent man, who we will refer to as Smokey, had committed no crime, had harmed no one, yet he still became the victim of police stalking.

In August of last year, multiple officers showed up at Smokey’s home while he was at work. Having been burglarized the week prior, Smokey had just installed video cameras on his home which captured the most unscrupulous actions of Vero Beach Police Officers.

When police showed up, Smokey was at work. He then got a call from his neighbors to alert him to the fact that police were at his house, so he hurried home. When Smokey arrived home 45 minutes later, he noticed that his video camera on his front porch had been disabled.

When he went back to the video to see what had happened, Smokey realized that it was the cops who took out his camera. Police left no note to say they had been there, no notice that they had tampered with his property, and made no mention of it to their superiors.

Smokey subsequently posted the images and video he took to Facebook and it was then shared with theFree Thought Project. What it shows is nothing short of stalking and is disturbing indeed.

What’s more, once the police department was made aware of the video on Facebook, they condoned the actions of the stalking cops and claimed they destroyed private property at an innocent person’s home—for officer safety.

“We went there for a felony warrant. We were also advised there may be firearms in the house,” Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey said.

The only problem with police showing up at Smokey’s home, however, is that no one in the home had committed a crime, no one had outstanding warrants, and the only people at his home to violate the law were the cops who showed up and messed with his private property.

As the video shows, the officers are seen knocking at the door before one of them notices he’s on camera. He then reaches up toward the camera and the video goes black.

“When I saw that I had no idea what they were up to. What their intentions were,” Smokey said.

Regardless of evidence of stalking caught on video, Currey is standing by his cops.

“In law enforcement, we don’t want to be at a disadvantage. We try to be at an advantage as best we can. If that was a safety precaution, and a tactical precaution to make them safer then I stand behind that,” Currey said.

Conveniently for the officers, however, not a single one of them made mention in their reports that they had disabled the camera and the chief only found out this week.

In spite of this omission from the report, Currey still stands by his officers noting that they could’ve been worried about possible weapons in the home—because some anonymous person allegedly reported this house.

FSA Commander Says 25,000 Syrian Rebels Back Turkish Force in Syria

Jan. 21, 2018, at 9:09 a.m.

Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army fighters are seen at a training camp in Azaz, Syria January 21, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal Reuters

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

AMMAN (Reuters) - Around 25,000 Free Syrian Army rebels are joining the Turkish military operation in northern Syria with the goal of recapturing Arab towns and villages seized by the YPG Kurdish militia almost two years ago, a rebel commander said on Sunday.

Major Yasser Abdul Rahim, who is also the commander of Failaq al Sham, a main FSA rebel group in the operations room of the campaign, said the rebels did not seek to enter the mainly Kurdish city of Afrin but encircle it and expel the YPG.

"We have no interest in entering the city only the military targets inside the city and the villages around it. We aim to encircle the city and ensure the militias are evicted. We won't fight in the city as we have no problem with civilians," he said.

A leading goal of the military operation was to recapture Tel Rifaat, a town southeast of Afrin, and a string of Arab villages the YPG captured from rebels in February 2016, driving out tens of thousands of inhabitants, Abdul Rahim said.

"The task of the Free Syrian Army is first to regain sixteen Arab towns and villages occupied by the foreign militias (YPG) with the help of the Russian air force," Abdul Rahim told Reuters in a phone interview from inside Syria.

The fighting forced at least 150,000 residents of these villages to flee to Azaz. They are sheltering in camps at the Turkish border and rebels say they have not been allowed to go back to their homes.

The mainly Arab rebels accuse the Syrian Kurdish militia of forcibly displacing Arabs from the villages in what they say is a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing. The YPG denies these allegations.

Tel Rifaat and nearby areas including the Menigh air base fell to the YPG as the rebels were trying to fend off a major assault by Syrian government forces backed by the Russian air force and Iranian-backed militias.

It was a prelude to the rebels’ defeat in eastern Aleppo - their biggest single setback of the civil war.

Turkish troops have targeted these YPG-held Arab villages in artillery and aerial attacks on the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border, rebels said. [nL8N1PG07M]

The capture of Tel Rifaat and the villages would allow the rebels to create a territorial link from a Turkish protected northern border strip stretching from Azaz and Jarablus on the western banks of the Euphrates to mainly rebel-held Idlib province further southwest.

Currently tens of thousands of civilians living in this de facto Turkish-backed buffer zone have to pass through Kurdish YPG-controlled border crossings, where residents and traders say they pay hefty taxes to move further south to Idlib province, the only province that is nearly fully under opposition control.

The rebels taking part in the assault are mainly the same factions that took part in the Turkey-backed operation launched in 2016 to drive Islamic State from the border and to prevent further expansion of YPG influence.

Abdul Rahim, an army defector, also said reinforcements and weapons were moving to the YPG from the mainly-Arab populated city of Manbij, south of rebel controlled Jarablus and west of the Euphrates, across government controlled territory.

"Their convoys are moving from Manbij to Afrin ...they are passing through regime territory," Abdul Rahim said.

Diplomats say Syria's government has tolerated the Kurdish militia because it focused its firepower on fighting the mainly Sunni Arab-led insurgency against President Bashar al Assad's rule. Damascus denies any support for the YPG.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi, William Maclean)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fre 1/21/2018 10:21:38 AM
	She was expelled from college after her racist rants went viral. Her mother thinks she deserves it. By Marwa Eltagouri January 19 at 7:18 PM Some schools, such as the University of Alabama, have expelled students for making racial slurs on social media.(Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) Harley Barber’s mother doesn’t want people to think that she’s hugging her daughter and telling her everything will be okay. In fact, Barber’s mother agrees with the University of Alabama’s decision to expel the 19-year-old freshman for posting two videos of her racist rantings to her Instagram account. The videos, which were recorded and posted to Twitter by another user, went viral and angered people on her campus and across the country. “I agree with the punishment,” Barber’s mother, Jill Barbera, told NJ.com. (Mother and daughter spell the last name differently.) “This is not a reflection of how she was raised. She’s just degrading herself and it breaks my heart,” Barber’s mother said. “I hope someone can look at this and learn. I don’t want anyone to feel what I feel.” The university’s decision to expel Barber because of the videos, which were packed with racial slurs, have opened questions about free speech and whether a public institution can remove a student for using offensive language. Barber’s sorority, Alpha Phi, also dismissed her. In the first video, Barber stands in front of a bathroom sink and says, “We do not waste water . . . because of the poor people in Syria.” She then says, “I love how I act like I love black people,” before using racial slurs. A second video was posted Monday in response to people who were upset by the language she used in the first. She threatened those who wanted to report her fake Instagram account to her sorority for using racist language. She said that she “doesn’t care if it’s Martin Luther King Day” before repeating a racial slur more than half a dozen times. Barber, who could not be reached by The Washington Post for comment, apologized Wednesday in the New York Post and said she was preparing to return to her family in Marlton, N.J. “I did something really, really bad,” Barber said in a telephone interview with the newspaper. “I don’t know what to do, and I feel horrible. I’m wrong, and there’s just no excuse for what I did. . . . I feel so, so bad, and I am so sorry.” Jill Barbera has not lived with her daughter since December 2016, when Barber was forced out after months of arguing, according to NJ.com. Barber has since lived with her paternal grandmother. The mother spoke to her daughter for the first time in a year on Wednesday, the same day the university announced her expulsion, she told NJ.com. Barber’s mother said she never heard her daughter use racial slurs or make derogatory statements similar to those she made in the videos. Jill Barbera is worried about her daughter’s safety, but also about that of her other daughter, who is 10 years old and attends school in a town that will likely talk about the incident for years to come, she told NJ.com. The mother has received messages on social media from people attacking her, saying she is responsible for Barber’s actions. The University of Alabama men’s basketball coach, Avery Johnson, addressed the racist rant by Harley Barber on Jan. 17, calling her remarks “abhorrent.” (AL.com) The University of Alabama’s president, Stuart R. Bell, said in a statement Wednesday that the videos were “highly offensive and deeply hurtful” and that he was disgusted and disappointed by Barber’s actions. “The actions of this student do not represent the larger student body or the values of our University,” he wrote. “We hold our students to much higher standards, and we apologize to everyone who has seen the videos and has been hurt by this hateful, ignorant and offensive behavior. This is not who we are.” [She recorded herself making racial slurs on MLK Day. Her college expelled her.] Barber’s sorority also condemned the videos in a statement to NJ.com. “They are offensive and hateful to both our own members and to other members of the Greek and campus community. The [University of Alabama] chapter leadership and supporting alumnae moved quickly to address the offense, and Ms. Barber is no longer a member of Alpha Phi,” said Linda Kahangi, executive director of Alpha Phi International. But Barber’s removal from a public university has raised questions of the constitutionality of dismissing a student for using offensive speech. Three civil rights activists who previously worked for the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to Bell on Thursday asking him to rescind Barber’s expulsion. While they were “dismayed and disgusted” by the videos, they wrote, her punishment was “unconstitutional, un-strategic and likely to be ineffective.” They wrote that the expulsion was likely an “emotional reaction” to the videos but that the University of Alabama should adhere to the First Amendment’s protection of hate speech. They suggested the university instead arrange a meeting between Barber and the university’s notable black alumni, such as New York Giants strong safety Landon Collins. Collins had expressed interest in speaking with Barber. “It would be a more imaginative, less constitutionally dangerous and more educational initiative,” wrote Ira Glasser, former executive director of the ACLU; Norman Siegel, former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union; and Michael Meyers, president and director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. “And if it worked, it would be redemptive, and a triumph for you and the University.” Jill Barbera told NJ.com that her daughter attended Camden Catholic High School in Cherry Hill. A former student there, Oriana Walker, who is black, told NJ.com that she was acquainted with Harley Barber and would not have associated with her had she heard her use racist language. “Her words were very ignorant,” Walker said. “I don’t know what to say, I wasn’t angry at first, I was just very shocked. I just sat there listening to the video.” (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fre 1/21/2018 5:26:17 PM
	Trump’s Policies Are Putting The Screws To Israel JANUARY 20, 2018 By Janet Phelan The US policies in the Middle East have increasingly exacerbated the tensions in the region, turning it into a cauldron of conflict. Under first Bush and then Obama, the US’s interventionist policies dramatically increased both the incidence of terrorism as well as funded wars that increasingly appear to be without end. And now, Trump appears to be following in the footsteps of his Presidential predecessors. His recent declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, followed by his announcement of savage cuts to UNRWA, which provides support to the Palestinian refugees, can only serve to further endanger peace in the Middle East. And while Trump publicly declares his love and support for Israel (and what American President has not?), these two decisions pave the way for further conflict and also for endangerment of Israel. The Jerusalem announcement resulted in protesters clashing with Israeli defense forces. More missiles were launched against the Southern Israeli city of Sderot and in retaliation, IDF planes struck Hamas military targets. Protests also ignited in numerous cities across the Muslim world as people took to the streets in Jordan’s capital of Amman, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. The second action by Trump, cutting US aid to UNRWA by over one half can only have devastating consequences for the Palestinian refugee population and will very likely increase terror attacks against Israel. The UNRWA supports and administers 363 schools serving 311,071 pupils, 65 health facilities with over 5.2 million patient visits last year. According to the UNRWA, there are 2,158,277 Palestinian refugees. Many of the refugees served by the agency are in Displaced Persons camps, which are known to be hotbeds of terrorist activities. Cut the funds and it is predicted that terrorism against Israel will increase. According to intelligence historian and former DOJ prosecutor John Loftus, the US’s support of the state of Israel has been two-faced all along. Writing in the introduction to his 1994 bestseller, The Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus baldly states that The major powers of the world have repeatedly planned covert operations to bring about the partial or total destruction of Israel. The US purports, consistently and rather loudly, to be a friend of the Jewish state, providing military aid in the billions each year. However, the US’s policies have generally resulted in outright sabotage to the security of Israel and in intelligence aid to Israel’s enemies. A couple recent examples include the Iran nuclear deal as well as the order from President Obama to pull back on the tunnel destructions during 2014 Operation Protective Edge. The tunnels were providing access into Israel from Gaza and inexplicably, Obama ordered Netanyahu to stop destroying the tunnels. Even more inexplicably, Netanyahu obeyed Obama’s order. The recent actions by Trump again show the two faces of the US’s friendship with Israel, actions which on the surface may appear to be supportive of the Jewish state while the repercussions are clearly only increasing conflict and insecurity. A recent HAARETZ article, entitled “Israeli Army Warns: Danger of Violence Escalating into War Is Growing,” discussed the present threat assessment. The article was published prior to the UNRWA announcement, which is generally seen as a potential fuse to a tinder box. Speaking on conditions of anonymity, a captain in the Israeli army recently admitted to this reporter that the reserves are being called up in Israel. Reserves are always called up in preparation for war. Janet Phelan is an investigative journalist and author of the groundbreaking exposé, EXILE. Her articles previously appeared in such mainstream venues as the Los Angeles Times, Orange Coast Magazine, Long Beach Press Telegram, etc. In 2004, Janet “jumped ship” and now exclusively writes for independent media. She is also the author of two collections of poetry—The Hitler Poems and Held Captive. She resides abroad. Image credit (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fre 1/21/2018 5:47:27 PM
	Innocent Man Records Cops Stalking His House, Disabling His Cameras JANUARY 19, 2018 By Matt Agorist Vero Beach, FL — Stalking is defined as a criminal activity consisting of the repeated following and harassing of another person. Stalking is a distinctive form of criminal activity composed of a series of actions that taken individually might constitute legal behavior, like writing notes or sending flowers. However, when they are compounded to instill fear or intimidation, these actions become illegal. Because of anti-stalking laws, people who are victims of stalking are told to call the police. But what happens when the stalkers are the police? An Indian River County man is finding out how tough it can be to get justice as a victim of stalking — because his stalkers are cops. This innocent man, who we will refer to as Smokey, had committed no crime, had harmed no one, yet he still became the victim of police stalking. In August of last year, multiple officers showed up at Smokey’s home while he was at work. Having been burglarized the week prior, Smokey had just installed video cameras on his home which captured the most unscrupulous actions of Vero Beach Police Officers. When police showed up, Smokey was at work. He then got a call from his neighbors to alert him to the fact that police were at his house, so he hurried home. When Smokey arrived home 45 minutes later, he noticed that his video camera on his front porch had been disabled. When he went back to the video to see what had happened, Smokey realized that it was the cops who took out his camera. Police left no note to say they had been there, no notice that they had tampered with his property, and made no mention of it to their superiors. Smokey subsequently posted the images and video he took to Facebook and it was then shared with theFree Thought Project. What it shows is nothing short of stalking and is disturbing indeed. What’s more, once the police department was made aware of the video on Facebook, they condoned the actions of the stalking cops and claimed they destroyed private property at an innocent person’s home—for officer safety. “We went there for a felony warrant. We were also advised there may be firearms in the house,” Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey said. The only problem with police showing up at Smokey’s home, however, is that no one in the home had committed a crime, no one had outstanding warrants, and the only people at his home to violate the law were the cops who showed up and messed with his private property. As the video shows, the officers are seen knocking at the door before one of them notices he’s on camera. He then reaches up toward the camera and the video goes black. “When I saw that I had no idea what they were up to. What their intentions were,” Smokey said. Regardless of evidence of stalking caught on video, Currey is standing by his cops. “In law enforcement, we don’t want to be at a disadvantage. We try to be at an advantage as best we can. If that was a safety precaution, and a tactical precaution to make them safer then I stand behind that,” Currey said. Conveniently for the officers, however, not a single one of them made mention in their reports that they had disabled the camera and the chief only found out this week. In spite of this omission from the report, Currey still stands by his officers noting that they could’ve been worried about possible weapons in the home—because some anonymous person allegedly reported this house. Smokey brings up a good point when he says, “if anybody can just make a report and then have the police show up and remove and tamper with things around your house, that’s not right.” (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fre 1/21/2018 6:11:01 PM
	FSA Commander Says 25,000 Syrian Rebels Back Turkish Force in Syria Jan. 21, 2018, at 9:09 a.m. Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army fighters are seen at a training camp in Azaz, Syria January 21, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal Reuters By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Around 25,000 Free Syrian Army rebels are joining the Turkish military operation in northern Syria with the goal of recapturing Arab towns and villages seized by the YPG Kurdish militia almost two years ago, a rebel commander said on Sunday. Major Yasser Abdul Rahim, who is also the commander of Failaq al Sham, a main FSA rebel group in the operations room of the campaign, said the rebels did not seek to enter the mainly Kurdish city of Afrin but encircle it and expel the YPG. "We have no interest in entering the city only the military targets inside the city and the villages around it. We aim to encircle the city and ensure the militias are evicted. We won't fight in the city as we have no problem with civilians," he said. A leading goal of the military operation was to recapture Tel Rifaat, a town southeast of Afrin, and a string of Arab villages the YPG captured from rebels in February 2016, driving out tens of thousands of inhabitants, Abdul Rahim said. "The task of the Free Syrian Army is first to regain sixteen Arab towns and villages occupied by the foreign militias (YPG) with the help of the Russian air force," Abdul Rahim told Reuters in a phone interview from inside Syria. The fighting forced at least 150,000 residents of these villages to flee to Azaz. They are sheltering in camps at the Turkish border and rebels say they have not been allowed to go back to their homes. The mainly Arab rebels accuse the Syrian Kurdish militia of forcibly displacing Arabs from the villages in what they say is a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing. The YPG denies these allegations. Tel Rifaat and nearby areas including the Menigh air base fell to the YPG as the rebels were trying to fend off a major assault by Syrian government forces backed by the Russian air force and Iranian-backed militias. It was a prelude to the rebels’ defeat in eastern Aleppo - their biggest single setback of the civil war. Turkish troops have targeted these YPG-held Arab villages in artillery and aerial attacks on the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border, rebels said. [nL8N1PG07M] The capture of Tel Rifaat and the villages would allow the rebels to create a territorial link from a Turkish protected northern border strip stretching from Azaz and Jarablus on the western banks of the Euphrates to mainly rebel-held Idlib province further southwest. Currently tens of thousands of civilians living in this de facto Turkish-backed buffer zone have to pass through Kurdish YPG-controlled border crossings, where residents and traders say they pay hefty taxes to move further south to Idlib province, the only province that is nearly fully under opposition control. The rebels taking part in the assault are mainly the same factions that took part in the Turkey-backed operation launched in 2016 to drive Islamic State from the border and to prevent further expansion of YPG influence. Abdul Rahim, an army defector, also said reinforcements and weapons were moving to the YPG from the mainly-Arab populated city of Manbij, south of rebel controlled Jarablus and west of the Euphrates, across government controlled territory. "Their convoys are moving from Manbij to Afrin ...they are passing through regime territory," Abdul Rahim said. Diplomats say Syria's government has tolerated the Kurdish militia because it focused its firepower on fighting the mainly Sunni Arab-led insurgency against President Bashar al Assad's rule. Damascus denies any support for the YPG. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi, William Maclean) Copyright 2018 Thomson Reuters.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fre 1/22/2018 10:39:17 AM
	Turkey INVADES Syria – tanks and soldiers cross the border 01/21/2018 - 04:21 TURKISH military forces are invading Syria after pounding the war-torn country with airstrikes. Forces entered the country's Afrin province today just 24 hours after pounding the region with airstrikes. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim reportedly said they are targeting US-backed Kurdish fighters. Shocking pictures show dozens of tanks and armoured vehicles crossing over the border in a terrifying display of military might. GETTY INVASION: Turkish tanks have been crossing into Syria GETTY FORCES: Tanks and other military hardware were seen crossing into Syria GETTY CLASHES: But Kurdish forces have claimed they were able to beat back the Turkish military GETTY STRIKES: The Turkish forces entered just hours after airstrikes were launched But the Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia has denied there is a full-scale invasion underway, claiming forces clashed in Afrin but Turkish soldiers were beaten back. YPG official, Nouri Mahmoudi, said "all the Turkish military's ground attacks against Afrin have been repelled so far and they have been forced to retreat." A statement from the militia said: "Our people are holding on to their land and do not accept surrender... we repeat our determination to protect our people in Afrin against the attacks." Turkey has claimed the massive movement of military hardware into the country is simply to create a 30km-deep "safe zone" in the north of the country. It came just hours after Turkey launches airstrikes in Afrin, with the military claiming it had hit 153 targets so far, including shelters and hideouts used by Kurdish militants. But the YPG – which is backed by the United States but classed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey – said they had killed six civilians and three of its fighters. Turkey has dubbed the action "Operation Olive Branch", which has seen them carry out relentless airstrikes yesterday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, wrote on Twitter: "In its second day, OliveBranchOperation continues to ensure peace and security for our people, protect Syria's territorial integrity and eliminate all terrorist elements in the region. "Turkey expects its allies to support its fight against terrorism in all of its forms." GETTY DAMAGE: The aftermath of rockets fired from Syria at the Turkish border town of Kilis “Turkey expects its allies to support its fight against terrorism in all of its forms” Turkish PM spokesman Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported that four rockets fired from Syria hit the border town of Kilis overnight, damaging houses. Turkish security forces then retaliated, it said. The operation pits Turkey against Kurdish fighters allied to the US at a time when ties between Ankara and Washington – NATO allies and members of the coalition against ISIS – reach breaking point. Turkey sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has carried out a deadly, three-decade insurgency in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. But the US is backing the YPG in Syria, seeing it as an effective partner in the fight against ISIS. (dailystar.co.uk)
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