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Will stop arming Kurds: US to Turkey

The White House confirmed the move in a cryptic statement about the phone call.

The United States will cut off its supply of arms to Kurdish fighters in Syria, President Donald Trump told the Turkish president on Saturday, in a move sure to please Turkey but further alienate Syrian Kurds who bore much of the fight against the Islamic State group.

In a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump said he’d “given clear instructions” that the Kurds will receive no more weapons - “and that this nonsense should have ended a long time ago,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. The White House confirmed the move in a cryptic statement about the phone call that said Trump had informed the Turk of “pending adjustments to the military support provided to our partners on the ground in Syria.”

( Source : AP )
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