Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) have deployed 1700 fighters from the front lines against ISIS to support the Kurdish canton of Afrin battling a Turkish military incursion. The fighters will be deployed and transported to Afrin which has been invaded by Turks.
The announcement is in line with the Pentagon’s announcement that the operations against ISIS in eastern Syria were in an “operational pause.”
The US-backed SDF, a Kurdish led coalition of local fighters in northern Syria, has been fighting ISIS in their last stronghold in Syria’s Middle Euphrates River Valley in Deir Ez-Zor province after taking much of the province north of the river and the city of Raqqa last year.
