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U.S. officials announce that they will send some special operations forces to Syria, as diplomats at a meeting in Vienna call for a nationwide truce. Diane Hodges reports.
Civilians took to the roads on Friday to flee Afrin, as Turkish-led forces pressed an operation to seize the Kurdish-majority region. IMAGES
US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, Ben Rhodes, warned Turkey against engaging with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), during the daily press briefing in Washington D.C. on Monday. Rhodes said that although the US support the Turkish effort to rid Jarablus of so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters, they do not however "support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against" the SDF.
The United States military will deploy specialized expeditionary targeting forces to Iraq in the effort to combat Islamic State, United States Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced in Congress on Tuesday.
The decision by U.S. President Obama to send special forces to Syria is strictly focused on fighting Islamic State and does not signify the U.S. is entering Syria's civil war, Secretary of State John Kerry says. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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