Turkey and the Kurds are on the brink of war -- and the Pentagon is right in the middle of it
Turkey and the US-backed YPG forces -- which have been helping the coalition fight ISIS in Syria -- have been clashing off and on since at least April.
At the end of that month, the two sides exchanged rocket fire, which Turkey says killed 11 YPG fighters. In early July, Turkey deployed troops to the Kurdish-held border in northwest Syria, which the YPG commander called "a declaration of war."
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