In a statement yesterday, Damascus and Moscow called on the United States to leave Syria immediately and not to hinder the Syrian government's efforts to make the constitution discussion committee work. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had not seen the developments it wanted to see in the effort. With the United States to establish a safe area in northeastern Syria, it has no choice but to continue its own course, having earlier threatened to launch a unilateral military operation to enforce the safe zone.

In a joint statement, the Syrian and Russian coordinating bodies on the return of displaced Syrians announced in a joint statement yesterday that the United States has foiled the plan to evacuate civilians from the Rukban camp because of non-fulfillment of its obligations in this regard, which keeps thousands of residents in the camp in detention. Under harsh conditions that threaten the lives of many of them.

"As a result of the failure of the US side to fulfill its obligations, the implementation of this phase of the plan to evacuate civilians from the Rukban camp has been delayed," said the two bodies.

The two bodies called on the US side to "immediately leave the occupied Syrian territories and not to hinder the efforts of the Syrian government to make the work of the constitutional discussion committee and cleanse the region a success," according to a statement published by the official Syrian News Agency (SANA).

The agency added that «US forces are holding thousands of civilians in the area of ​​Al-Tanf, and provide cover and support for terrorist groups deployed in the camp, extorting displaced people, and control most of the humanitarian assistance reaching the camp, which exacerbates the disastrous conditions of civilians, and threatens the lives of many of them, especially Children resemble those of the residents of al-Houl camp in al-Hasakah, which is controlled by the US-backed SDF forces, where life is severely reduced, leading to increased civilian deaths, especially children.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that his country has not seen the developments it wants to see in the efforts with the United States to establish a safe area in northeastern Syria, and has no choice but to continue its own course. Parliamentary in Ankara, Turkey plans to resettle two million people in the planned safe area, which he said would extend east from the Euphrates River in Syria to the Iraqi border.

The Turkish National Security Council announced in a statement after its meeting on Tuesday, chaired by Erdogan, that Turkey will further strengthen its efforts on the establishment of the safe area, in order to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to their homes as soon as possible.

"Turkey respects the territorial integrity and political unity of Syria, supports a political solution based on the new constitution of Syria, and shares this with the international community at every opportunity," the council said, stressing that "Turkish operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq will continue until the area is cleared." Of the militants, in order to ensure the security of Turkey and Iraq », according to the statement.

US President Donald Trump's envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, warned last Thursday that "any unilateral operation will not lead to any improvement in security for anyone, because it may affect the course of the battles led by Kurdish forces against ISIS, which is a priority for the states." United in Syria.

Turkey and the United States agreed last August to establish a joint operations center, to coordinate and manage the establishment of a safe area in northern Syria, and Turkey aims from this region to keep Kurdish militants from its borders.

Turkey considers Kurdish militants in Syria the Syrian wing of the Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which operates in the south and east of the country and is classified by the Turkish authorities as a "separatist terrorist organization."

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Turkish confirms continue

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Northern Iraq.