Baladi News
Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to "more effective coordination" between their countries' military operations in Syria, after Turkey threatened to launch a new offensive against US-backed Kurdish fighters in the war-torn country earlier this week.
The Turkish and United States presidents spoke by telephone on Friday amid heightened tensions between the two NATO countries over their divergent alliances in northern Syria.
On Wednesday, Erdogan announced that Turkey planned to launch a military operation within the "next few days" against the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia allied with Washington in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group.
A Turkish presidential source said Erdogan and Trump "agreed to ensure more effective cooperation on the subject of Syria" in their call, but did not provide additional details, Reuters and AFP reported.
Source: Middle East Eye.