U.S. troops deployed armored vehicles on the Turkey's border with northern Syria. It was asserted that the step was taken as a measure to prevent the conflict between Turkish troops and the People's Protection Units (YPG) militants.
Using information obtained from the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) Syrian affiliate YPG's sources, Sputnik reported that U.S. troops started to station their armored vehicles late Saturday along the border spanning the towns of Kobani to Karkamış.
US SOLDIERS ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF PKK TERRORISTS
U.S. soldiers also attended the funeral ceremony held for the PKK terrorists who were killed in the Turkish airstrikes. The terrorists' bodies were buried in the company of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's posters.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984.
More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.
