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    Turkey promises to clear US-backed Kurds from eastern Syria

    by Umar Farooq and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Dec 12, 2018 3 minutes

    BEIRUT - Turkey will launch a military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria "within a matter of days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, threatening to upend an uneasy detente.

    That could put it on a collision course with Washington, which backs the Kurds with thousands of service members, special forces and contractors who maintain a presence east of the Euphrates River, while Turkey and its coalition of Syria rebels stay to the west.

    Turkey will target the east to "save the

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