U.S. forces inspect a bordering town in north-eastern Syria

Derik – North-Press Agency

Solnar Mohammad   

The U.S. forces conducted today a tour in the triangular area of the Syrian-Iraqi-Turkish borders in the far northeast of Syria. While local sources confirmed to North-Press that the U.S. military patrol intended directly, the opening made by the Turkish forces in the border cement wall separating them from the regions of northeastern Syria, adjacent to the town of Ein Diwar.

Other sources also confirmed to North-Press that the U.S. forces denied their knowledge of the Turkish procedures in the border wall separating their areas of deployment in northeastern Syria and the Turkish side.

The Turkish army removed a part of the separating cement border-wall, at the town of Ein Diwar in the area of Derik (Malikiya), east of Qamishli on the Syrian-Turkish-Iraqi bordering triangle on December 5.

Local residents of the town indicated at the time to North-Press that the Turkish military removed a part of the wall, within the framework of implementing the Russian-Turkish agreement aimed at facilitating the entry of the Turkish vehicles to conduct the joint patrols with Russia in the region.

They also pointed out at the time that the joint patrols didn't previously reach the town of Ein Diwar, but they reached the village of Jaroudiya in the countryside of Derik, noting at the same time that the U.S. patrols were the ones which crossed from the village.

Turkey and its armed groups launched military invasion on October 9 against northeastern Syria, in an attempt to establish the so-called "safe zone", with the aim of housing millions of Syrian refugees and bringing about a demographic change into the region.