Top Kurdish general: Watching over ISIS prisoners now a 'second priority'

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"Syrian opposition fighters assigned to guard thousands of ISIS captives are rushing to the border ahead of an expected attack by Turkish forces, a top Kurdish general told NBC News on Monday.

Gen. Mazloum Kobani, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, said watching over the ISIS prisoners locked up in Syria is a "second priority" now that the United States has cleared the way for a Turkish assault likely targeting the mostly Kurdish forces along the border.

"This is a very big problem," Kobani told NBC News. "Nobody has helped in this regard."

The detention centers hold 12,000 suspected terrorists swept up during the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State militant group's fighters in the region, according to Kobani and U.S. officials. Of the 12,000, 2,000 are foreign fighters, and Iraqis and Syrians make up the remaining 10,000, Pentagon officials say."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/to ... d_nn_tw_nw

Winning?

[Lemons]

Why should the Kurds stay there and guard the ISIS prisoners and wait like sitting ducks forTurkey to come for them. Turkey has made it clear what their goal is, to clear the area of Syria near their border of non-Turkish people and that includes the Kurds.

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Shervan Derwish
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Security source: More than 50 armed #Daesh group in Raqqa are launching a coordinated attack to control AlBasel base in center of the city. AlBasel is an important area, the cells are trying to control security centers, inspection points and self-defense forces
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"Turkey says it is ready to advance into northeast Syria now that the United States has begun withdrawing troops from the Turkey-Syria frontier in an abrupt policy shift by U.S. President Donald Trump widely criticized in Washington as a betrayal of America’s allies, the Kurds.

As Turkish troops finalize plans, the government’s scheme to move millions of refugees into conquered territory in northeast Syria is alarming some Western allies as much as the military operation itself.

For Turkey, which views Kurdish YPG fighters in northeast Syria as terrorists because of their ties to militants waging an insurgency inside Turkey, an influx of non-Kurdish Syrians would help it secure a buffer against its main security threat."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syri ... SKBN1WN0KO

Don with his super duper secret meeting tonight to discuss this better figure out a way to stop it.