Washington fears Turks kill Kurds, while Turkey’s gangs continue clashing

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In the past week, Arab newspapers touched upon the US fears of committing massacres by the Turks against the Kurds and minorities in Syria, as well as the fighting between the Turkish mercenaries in Syria.

Al-Arab: US deferral of troop withdrawal eases down the Turkish and Iran's ambition in Syria

On the Syrian issue, US media revealed that President Donald Trump had agreed to extend the deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from Syria for four months, which according to observers would ease down the regional powers (Turkey and Iran) rushing to expand their ambitions in Syria".

"Trump's decision would be an important catalyst to speed up a political settlement between all the conflicting parties on the Syrian arena, as well as making Iran more cautious in its expansion in this country".

Middle East: Washington fears of the killing of Kurds by Turks after their withdrawal from Syria

US Secretary Mike Pompeo on Thursday expressed US concerns about the killing of Kurds by the Turks after the US withdrawal from Syria, pointing out that Washington was trying to ensure that it did not happen after the withdrawal of US troops from the north area."

Al-Arab: Abolition war between the enemy brothers in north Syria under the eyes of Turkey

"North Syria is witnessing fierce battles between pro-Turkish armed gangs for days, which have led to dozens of deaths among fighters and civilians who have found themselves trapped by friendly fire and the outbreak of fighting at this time," Al-Arab newspaper reported. In particular, questions about whether external forces are moving, under mutual accusations among those gangs, about the responsible for the outbreak. "

The newspaper added, "Observers believe that the fighting between the two sides may have happened by Turkish order, which finds itself in a difficult situation in front of Russia in light of its inability to implement the Sochi agreement and does not exclude observers that Ankara had instructed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which, although classified as terrorist, it still continues to support them behind the scenes - to attack the control areas of the Liberation National Front, to achieve two goals. The first is to divert attention from Manbij, where it cannot achieve its threats under the Syrian regime's intervention on the seam lines, and the most important thing is the insistence of Washington to protect the Kurds. "

"Ankara is in favor of fighting in the north to cover up its inability to invade Manbij or East Euphrates. There could also be an agreement between Moscow and Ankara to bring the dominant parties in the north with depleted battles, forcing those factions to accept compromises insisted on by Russia. Moscow has already signaled the slow implementation of the Idlib agreement."

"The Syrian factions have bitter experiences with Turkey. They already had an agreement with Moscow that forced the factions to abandon Aleppo in 2016. Ankara also had a decisive role in restoring the regime last year when it pressed its loyalist factions to withdraw to Idlib."

Al-Arab: Erdogan is counting on the countries in economic crisis to ease Turkey’s

On the Turkish issue, Al-Arab newspaper said: "Turkey seeks to find alternatives, even limited to vent its suffocating economic crisis, to go to economically strapped countries such as Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan and Iraq, after the political options of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan exacerbated relations with countries with strong economies and rich as the European Union, the United States and the Gulf States."

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