{"id":27214,"date":"2018-12-28T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27214"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T10:23:18","slug":"syrian-kurdish-ypg-urges-government-to-enter-manbij-to-stave-off-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27214","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Kurdish YPG urges government to enter Manbij to stave off Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1427021\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: The Syrian army entered the key northern city of Manbij for the first time in six years on Friday, a spokesman said in a televised statement.<br \/>The announcement came moments after the Kurds, left exposed by a US pledge to pull out its own troops, asked for the regime&#8217;s help to face a threatened Turkish offensive.<br \/>The Syrian army spokesman said the national flag was raised in Manbij, a key city which lies about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of the Turkish border.<br \/>The People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish militia in Syria, made its appeal following a shock announcement by its US ally last week of a full troop withdrawal from Syria.<br \/>The YPG asked government forces to deploy in areas it already withdrew from earlier this year, especially the Manbij area, a key city where US-led coalition forces are stationed.<br \/>&#8220;We invite the Syrian government forces&#8230; to assert control over the areas our forces have withdrawn from, in particularly Manbij, and to protect these areas against a Turkish invasion,&#8221; the statement said.<br \/>Kurdish fighters still based there are part of the coalition-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance battling Daesh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: The Syrian army entered the key northern city of Manbij for the first time in six years on Friday, a spokesman said in a televised statement.The announcement came moments after the Kurds, left exposed by a US pledge to pull out its own troops, asked for the regime&#8217;s help to face a threatened Turkish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}