U.S. drones have been monitoring recent intensified movements by the Turkish Army near the Syrian border in real-time in anticipation of a possible cross-border operation by Ankara.
A large number of U.S. drones were spotted by the Syrian border as Turkish caterpillars removed concrete blocks in Akçakale, opposite of Syria’s Tal Abyad, in preparation for a possible crossing into Syrian territories.
It is not known whether the U.S. is sharing information and footage it had gathered of Turkish movements with terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syria affiliate, the YPG, or any other forces in the region, as Washington has not yet commented on the issue.
Since 2016, Turkey has conducted two major military operations in northwestern Syria -- Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch -- to purge the region of terrorist groups, most notably the PKK/YPG, the Syrian branch of the terrorist PKK.
Even as Turkey has targeted the terrorist PKK/YPG, the U.S. has allied itself with the group, ostensibly to fight Daesh in Syria.
Turkey has long criticized the U.S. working with and supplying arms and ammunition to the terrorist YPG/PKK, as Turkish officials argue that using one terrorist group to fight another makes no sense.
In its 30-year terrorist campaign against Turkey, the PKK has taken some 40,000 lives.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in early 2011 when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected severity.
