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A suicide bomber blew himself up in the northern city of Manbij, in northern Syria, killing 20 people, including five US soldiers. The attack claimed by the Islamic state is apparently the bloodiest for US troops since the first contingent arrived in Syria in 2015 and comes at a time when President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the soldiers because the jihadist group would be he was defeated.
The bombing occurred in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers on patrol: "US troops were killed in an explosion while conducting a routine operation in Syria," said the Islamic State's headquarters in Baghdad in a statement on your Twitter page.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not believe that this incident, despite its seriousness, will cause the United States to change its mind about the withdrawal of its troops from Syria.
"The attack on Manbij may have influenced Trump's decision to leave Syria, but in light of Mr. Trump's determination, I do not think there will be a retreat from this terrorist attack, otherwise it would represent a victory for the Islamic state. ", said Erdogan.
Turkey is preparing everything for its offensive against the Kurds as soon as the American troops withdraw from Syria. At the gates of Manbij, the rebels supported by Ankara are camped waiting for the green light to begin the offensive against the Kurdish forces supported by the United States that have controlled this strategic northern city for two years.
Erdogan wants to establish a security zone within Syria to pay attention to any support of the Syrian Kurdish forces to the PKK, the Turkish movement that fights for self-determination for the Kurds of Turkey. The Turkish president spoke on the phone with Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to his report.
A Turkish security zone that Syrian Kurds refuse to accept in these terms, being more likely to do so if it were controlled by UN helmets. "Other hypotheses are unacceptable because they violate the sovereignty of Syria and the sovereignty of our autonomous region," Kurdish-Syrian politician Aldar Khalil told Afp.
The 20-mile security zone beyond the Turkish-Syrian border was Trump's proposal during the telephone conversation, the day after he threatened Ankara with "economic devastation" if his army attacked the Kurdish allied forces of the United States, the YPG, part of the Syrian democratic forces.
"I spoke with President Erdogan of Turkey to inform him of our position on all matters, including our last two weeks of success in the fight against what remains of the Islamic state and the 20-mile security zone," Trump wrote on Twitter .
Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, said yesterday in Saudi Arabia that he had spoken with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on the "precise methodology" to implement the security zone.
"The purpose of the president there, I think, is what we have been talking about for some time, we want to be sure that the people who fought with us to overthrow the Islamic State's caliphate are safe and that the terrorists who operate from Syria are not capable of attacking Turkey, "explained Pompey.
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