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Update for Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Today in Afghanistan U.S. general in charge of coalition in Iraq says 5,600 U.S. troops in that country will become an “enduring presence” to work with Iraqi partners to finally defeat IS.
However, PM Abadi says there is a plan for gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Two Iranian backed militias, however, have a different view and want U.S. forces to leave now, and one of them, Kataib Hezbollah which is linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, threatens to attack U.S. forces.
Kurdish president Erdogan tells U.S. to leave the Syrian Kurdish town of Manbij and threatens confrontation over the issue:
“You are still telling us not to approach Manbij. We will come to Manbij to give it back to its true owners,” Erdogan said, repeating his earlier remarks about the Kurdish enclave of Afrin attacked by his army and Islamist proxies for three weeks now. Kurdish officials from both Syria and Turkey interpreted Erdogan’s remarks as a threat of ethnic cleansing in the isolated Kurdish district.
Head of Afrin’s Health Committee Angelo Resho announced that continued Turkish airstrikes and ground shelling have killed 148 civilians and wounded 365 others. Unlike the eastern flank of Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), from Manbij to the border with Iraq, the US does not have a military presence in Afrin which remained the most peaceful part of Syria, intact from the ravaging effects of the seven-year-long civil war until Turkey’s invasion. Erdogan has vowed to capture all of the de facto autonomous Rojava, despite US forces’ presence there.
Kurdish professor planning to run for parliament is murdered.
Today in Afghanistan
Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2018/02/update-for-tuesday-february-6-2018.html
