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Turkey and U.S. Plan to Create Syria "Safe Zone"


(New York Times) Anne Barnard, Michael R. Gordon, and Eric Schmitt - Turkey and the U.S. have agreed on a plan that envisions American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces working together to sweep Islamic State militants from a 60-mile-long strip of northern Syria along the Turkish border, American and Turkish officials say. The plan would create an Islamic State-free zone controlled by relatively moderate Syrian insurgents, which the Turks say could also be a "safe zone" for displaced Syrians.
2015-07-28 00:00:00
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