The United States has asked Germany to provide ground forces to combat terrorism in northern Syria, boosting pressure for a greater military commitment by Berlin, while Iraqi forces have launched a large-scale security operation to secure the border with Syria.
The US Special Representative to Syria, James Jeffrey, told the newspaper "Die Welt" German, yesterday: «We want Germany ground forces to replace part of our soldiers deployed in the framework of an international mission to combat terrorism in this region», and Jeffrey on a visit to Berlin for talks in He said he was waiting for a response this July.
For his part, the deputy head of the parliamentary bloc of the Christian Union, which belongs to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Johan Vadvol, to carefully examine the US demand, and said that "should not be rejected the request automatically," and called for continued use of reconnaissance aircraft «Tornedo» Of the German army in the fight «urging».
At the end of 2018, US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the bulk of some 2,000 US troops deployed in northeastern Syria, asserting that he had won the terrorist organization's "complete" victory, but since then he has been persuaded to slow the withdrawal.
The Iraqi forces announced yesterday the start of a large-scale security operation in the Western Sahara adjacent to the border with Syria, in order to clear the cells of a possible sleeper of the «urging», seeking to use the region to restore its structure.
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement that the armed forces have begun the first phase of the "Will of Victory" operation with extensive operations to clear the areas between the governorates of Salah al-Din, Nineveh and Anbar, to the Iraqi-Syrian international border.
On the other hand, a Syrian local official said yesterday, the return of 969 people from the city of short, in the western Homs countryside, to their city after the displacement of more than seven years, said a member of the Executive Office of the city of short, Toni Kasouha, told the German news agency «d. "The returnees belong to 442 families, and will return other payments from the people of the city in the coming days after the rehabilitation of basic services in the city.