Project deployment of Roj Peshmerga forces in Kurdistan Syria is approaching implementation

Project deployment of Roj Peshmerga forces in Kurdistan Syria is approaching implementation

Feb 06 2019

ARK News: The head of the Syrian "Tayar al-Ghad ", Ahmad al-Jarba, is quietly working with Washington, Ankara and Erbil on a plan to deploy some 10,000 Arab and Kurdish fighters in the "security zone" which America and Turkey are working to establish in an area equal to one and a half times the size of Lebanon which is located between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, northeast of the country, after the US withdrawal from them.

The proposal, which al-Jarba worked on it and for the implementation of shuttling between Erbil and Ankara and eastern Syria, which aims to “fill the vacuum, and intersect the interests of several parties, local, Arab and international”, in addition to solves a major contract for the US-Turkish project for the establishment of the security zone”, according to Western diplomatic sources familiar with the content of the talks between al-Jarba and US officials and Turks and the former President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq Masoud Barzani.

The plan includes a "security zone" between Jarablis, north of Aleppo, and Pish Khabour on Iraq's eastern border, up to 500 kilometres long and 28 to 32 kilometres deep, about 15,000 square kilometres.

Al-Jarba initiative came after meetings with Barzani, US officials and Turks to propose "practical solutions in a very complex area, where the Russians are based in Deir al-Zour, the Iranians in Al-Bukamal, the Americans in the air, al-Tanaf and Ayn al-Assad, while Damascus places its eye on it, and Turkey is mobilizing its army on its borders. "

In detail, the plan includes the provision of between 8 and 12 thousand fighters from Arab “al-Nukhba Forces” and the Syrian Kurdish “Peshmerga” that trained in Iraqi Kurdistan, so as to spread between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and take into account the ethnic sensitivities, according to supervisors, it includes the spread of Arabs in Tal Abyadh of Raqqa and Ras al-Ayn of Hasaka, while Kurdish fighters are deployed between Pish Khabour (Semalka) on the Tigris River and the city of Qamishlo.

If the extension of the "security zone" is clear between Jarablis and Pish Khabour, the depth ranges from 28 to 32 kilometres in the areas of Tal al-Abyadh, Malikiya and Amouda, with the exception of the city of Qamishlo because of a "security Square" for Damascus, including military and security headquarters.

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