Syria Kurds say US to ?adjust? weapons deliveries
 

QAMISHLI: Washington will ?adjust? its delivery of weapons to an anti-jihadist alliance in Syria dominated by Kurdish fighters, Kurdish officials said Monday, insisting that collaboration with the United States will ?continue?.
The comments come after Turkey said it had received assurances from the White House that it would halt supplies of weapons to the Kurdish People?s Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish militia in Syria. The US began supplying weapons directly to the YPG earlier this year as part of its support for the anti-jihadist Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance, which is dominated by the Kurdish militia.
The decision deeply angered Ankara, which considers the YPG a ?terrorist? group. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that US President Donald Trump had told Turkey the weapons deliveries would end. ?Mr Trump said he gave a clear order and that after this, weapons would not be supplied to the YPG, essentially he said this nonsense should have been ended earlier,? Cavusoglu said at a press conference in Ankara. Washington was less explicit, however, describing only ?pending adjustments? to its support for the YPG, which forms the backbone of the SDF that ousted the Islamic State group from Raqa last month.
Kurdish officials told AFP Monday that any changes to weapons deliveries were the natural consequence of their successes against IS, and not a reflection of any change in their ties with Washington.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World...~4/m_SyGQpn06Y

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