WASHINGTON –
The Us government has on Tuesday approved the supply of weapons to the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria. That, the Pentagon has let know.
Washington wants the weapon sales, the YPG-fighters in support of the military operation on the Syrian city of Raqqa to conquer the terror group Islamic State (IS).
Turkey is strongly opposed to the American support for the YPG. Ankara says that the group is a terrorist organisation which has links with the banned Kurdish workers ‘ Party (PKK).