Russia and Turkey begin the ninth joint patrol in northeastern Syria

ARK News: Russian and Turkish military began the ninth joint patrol operation in northeastern Syria, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

"The ninth joint patrol of the Russian military police and the Turkish Armed Forces started on November 20 at 10.15 (local time) in a border area located several kilometers northwest of the town of Qamishlo," the statement said.
It is specified that the joint patrol began in the town of “Arada Kabira” and heads east along the border with Turkey.

The mission is made up of about 50 troops traveling in a total of eight armored vehicles, Taifun, Tigr and BTR 80 Russian and Turkish Kirpi.

The development of the operation is controlled in real-time from the air by an Orlan 10 drone of the Russian military police.

Turkey launched the so-called “Peace Source Operation” in northeastern Syria on October 9 with the argument of removing Kurdish militants from its border and defining a "safe zone". A week later, Ankara agreed with Washington to suspend the operation on condition that Kurdish forces, allies of the United States, were removed from the security zone.

On October 22, the presidents of Turkey and Russia agreed to deploy Russian military police and Syrian soldiers in northern Syria, but outside the area where Turkish troops operate.

It was also established that the forces of Russia and Syria would facilitate the transfer of Kurdish factions at a distance of 30 kilometers and that the Russian-Turkish patrolling would begin ten kilometers from the border both east and west of the area of the military operation Turkish, although excluding the city of Qamishlo.

Source: MBS News

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