US officials confirm at least one Turkish shell landed near a U.S. military base in Kobane. Right after Gen Milley said the US was giving coordinates of US bases to the Turkish military "to make sure that they know exactly where American forces are"
Turkish Defense Ministry: there was no deliberate shelling of a US base. Kurdish fighters fired on Turkey from the Kobane area. Turkey fired back, hitting aprox 1 km south of the US base. The US contacted Turkey to say the firing was too close and Turkey stopped.
Coalition officials say the Turkish account of the firing at Kobane doesn’t reflect what happened. The shells were bracketed - landing around the base either with a view to a direct hit or to intimidate. They were a few 100 meters away, not a kilometer, they say.
The SDF now says it has killed 5 Turkish soldiers and destroyed a police station across the border in shelling from Kobane. There’s more than one US base in the area. Hard to see how US troops can avoid being in the middle of this unless more of them are pulled back.
The US soldiers at the base in Kobane that was nearly hit by Turkish shells have now been pulled back. There are suspicions this was precisely Turkey’s intention apnews.com/dbb37350fda144…
The SDF says this morning that the US troops who vacated their base in Mistenur Hill in Kobane because of Turkish shelling last night are now back
