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WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S.-backed ground operations against Islamic State remnants in eastern Syria have been put on hold because Kurds who had spearheaded combat against the extremists have shifted to a separate fight with Turkish forces<\/a>, U.S. officials said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public acknowledgement of what Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, called an \u201coperational pause\u201d is the most explicit sign yet that Turkey\u2019s intervention in the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin<\/a> is hindering the U.S. effort to finish off ISIS<\/a> in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For weeks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other U.S. officials have called Turkey\u2019s operation a \u201cdistraction\u201d from the anti-ISIS campaign. Mattis also has said the U.S. understands that Turkey has an active Kurdish insurgency inside its own borders and that it views Syrian Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units, or YPG, to be a terrorist organization. The U.S. says the YPG is separate from the Kurdish fighters<\/a> inside the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but Turkey disagrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) attend the funeral of Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces that were killed in combat against Islamic State group in Deir Ezzor on March 3, 2018. (Delil Souleiman\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Turkey launched its air and ground offensive in the Afrin enclave on Jan. 20, conducting airstrikes and artillery strikes on a daily basis. It is just one dimension of a complex war in Syria that includes a range of local opposition fighters, extremist elements, Syrian government troops, proxy forces and military units from Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manning said that although ground operations against ISIS in the Euphrates River Valley have been temporarily suspended, U.S. airstrikes against ISIS holdouts in that area are continuing. He said one airstrike Sunday near the city of Abu Kamal destroyed two ISIS supply routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nature of our mission in Syria has not changed,\u201d Manning said. He said the Syrian Democratic Forces, which are comprised of Kurdish as well as Arab fighters, remain \u201cour major partner\u201d in completing the war against ISIS in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Pentagon spokesman, Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway, said he could not offer an estimate of the number of Kurdish fighters who have left the Euphrates River Valley battlefield to join the fight against Turks in Afrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not fighting ISIS any more, and that basically meant that they\u2019re not taking territory back from ISIS as quickly as they had been in the past,\u201d Rankine-Galloway said. He added that the pause in offensive ground operations has not resulted in the loss of any territory retaken from ISIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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