FSA gangs may be behind killing of coalition soldiers in Manbij
Citing the UK’s Special Air Service sources Mail on Sunday wrote that Free Syrian Army gangs may be behind the killing of two coalition soldiers in Manbij on Thursday.
Two UK and US servicemen were killed in Manbij in an explosion last week. The details of the attack are not released while Pentagon said that “the incident is the subject of a military investigation”.
The Mail on Sunday noted that if the military investigation concludes that FSA backed by Turkey was behind the blast, this “could lead to a diplomatic row with Turkey, a Nato member”.
The SAS source talking to the newspaper added that the British soldier was “part of a joint UK-US Special Forces team which was working with local Kurdish troops in a bid to stabilize” Manbij. The source also told that the jihadists in Manbij are aligned with FSA to take over the city, which was reclaimed from ISIS by the U.S. backed Kurdish forces in 2016.
Turkish is allied with FSA gangs and jihadist groups in the area.
