Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Turkey, Syrian Kurds headed toward clashA Turkish Army tank and an armoured vehicle on manoeuvres yesterday, stationed near the border with Syria, in Karkamis, Turkey. Ankara is also concerned about the growing power of US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces, who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey. Syrian activists, meanwhile, said that hundreds of Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters were gathered in the Turkish border area near Karkamis in preparation for an attack on Jarablus. Intensifying effortsThe Kurds’ outsized role in the Syrian civil war is a source of concern for the Syrian government as well. Government and Kurdish forces have shared control of Hasakeh since the early years of the Syrian war.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 24, 2016 04:09 UTC