{"id":41308,"date":"2019-10-24T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41308"},"modified":"2019-10-24T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:22:24","slug":"londons-lebanese-sympathize-with-protests-struggle-to-send-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41308","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Lebanese sympathize with protests, struggle to send money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"77\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: The US demanded an explanation from Ankara on Wednesday for what it described as \u201cwar crimes\u201d committed during Turkey\u2019s invasion of northern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, said there were concerns about anti-Assad fighters backed by Turkish forces.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMany people fled because they\u2019re very concerned about these Turkish-supported Syrian opposition forces, as we are. We\u2019ve seen several incidents which we consider war crimes,\u201d the envoy told a House of Representatives hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said the US was also investigating the possible use of illegal white phosphorus munitions during the Turkish invasion, and wanted an explanation from Turkey\u2019s government \u201cat a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJeffrey described Turkey\u2019s invasion to drive Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters out of the border area as \u201ca tragic disaster for northeast Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile Russian military police began patrols on the Syrian border on Wednesday, following an agreement on Tuesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Kremlin told Kurdish fighters to pull back or face being attacked again by Turkish forces.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s quite obvious that if the Kurdish units don\u2019t withdraw with their weapons then Syrian border guards and Russian military police will have to step back. And the remaining Kurdish units will be steamrolled by the Turkish army,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Washington, Trump said a US-negotiated cease-fire between Turkey and the Kurds would be permanent, and he lifted US sanctions on Ankara. \u201cWe\u2019ve saved the lives of many, many Kurds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nTurkey considers the YPG terrorists because of their links to PKK insurgents in Turkey. It has demanded they retreat from the entire border region, creating a 30-km-deep \u201csafe zone\u201d where Turkey could also settle some of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees on its soil.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new agreement allows Turkey to control that area. On Wednesday, Turkish-backed Syrian fighters in Ras Al-Ain unfurled their flag on top of the Kurdish fighters\u2019 former HQ.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: The US demanded an explanation from Ankara on Wednesday for what it described as \u201cwar crimes\u201d committed during Turkey\u2019s invasion of northern Syria. President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, said there were concerns about anti-Assad fighters backed by Turkish forces. \u201cMany people fled because they\u2019re very concerned about these Turkish-supported Syrian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41308","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\/41308","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=41308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}