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Syria’s Kurds are awaiting clarifications from the US over its plans to pull out its troops from Syria, following comments made by a top White House aide that appeared to contradict earlier comments by US President Donald Trump, a Syrian Kurdish official said Monday.
Speaking to The Associated Press from northern Syria Monday, Badran Ciya Kurd said the Kurds have not been informed of any change in the US position and were in the dark about the latest comments by US national security adviser John Bolton and what they indicated.
“We have not been formally or directly notified, all what we heard were media statements,” he said.
Bolton, on a visit to Israel Sunday, said US troops will not leave northeastern Syria until IS jihadists are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected. The comments appeared to put the brakes on a withdrawal abruptly announced by Trump last month and initially expected to be completed within weeks.
Bolton said the US wants its Kurdish allies in Syria protected from any planned Turkish offensive.
Source: The Times of Israel.