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US Special Forces in Syria shelled by Turkish troops

By John Gage
Published October 11, 2019 7:41pm ET
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US Special Forces in Syria shelled by Turkish troops
A U.S. soldier sits on an armored vehicle on a newly installed position, near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found. | (Hussein Malla/AP)

The Turkish military shelled U.S. Special Forces during an operation the country insists was a mistake.

A senior Pentagon official and an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official said Friday that U.S. Special Forces came under shelling from the Turks during their “Operation Peace Spring,” according to Newsweek.

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