US sets up new base in Manbij amid Turkish military threats

The US Army has set up a new military base in Manbij region in northeastern Aleppo as the Turkish Army prepares for an imminent assault on Syria’s Kurdish-held town.

Sources from the local population disclosed this on Tuesday, saying that the US-led coalition has established a new military base in al-Awn region north of the town of Manbij along the regions occupied by the Turkey-led Euphrates Shield forces.

The sources went on to say that the US and French forces that have recently arrived in Manbij are expected to deploy in the new base.

They added that the US and French forces have dispatched a sum of 300 soldiers and a large number of armored vehicles and heavy military equipment to a region in northern Aleppo between Manbij and territories controlled by the Euphrates Shield forces.

In the meantime, the US troops have embarked on patrolling in a region between the Kurdish-held regions and the regions occupied by the Euphrates Shield forces near Sajour River and along Syria's border with Turkey.

EA