The US is demanding that Turkey close a 60-mile stretch of its border with Syria which is the sole remaining crossing point for Isis militants, including some of those involved in the massacre in Paris and other terrorist plots.

The complete closure of the 550-mile-long border would be a serious blow to Isis, which has brought tens of thousands of Islamist volunteers across the frontier over the past three years.

In the wake of the Isis attacks in Paris, Washington is making clear to Ankara that it will no longer accept Turkish claims that it is unable to cordon off the remaining short section of the border still used by Isis. “The game has changed. Enough is enough. The border needs to be sealed,” a senior official in President Barack Obama’s administration told The Wall Street Journal, describing the tough message that Washington has sent to the Turkish government. “This is an international threat, and it’s coming out of Syria and it’s coming through Turkish territory.”

The US estimates some 30,000 Turkish troops would be needed to close the border between Jarabulus on the Euphrates and the town of Kilis, further west in Turkey, according to the paper. US intelligence agencies say that the stretch of frontier most commonly used by Isis is between Jarabulus, where the official border crossing has been closed, and the town of Cobanbey.

It has become of crucial importance ever since the Syrian Kurdish forces known as the People’s Protection Units (YPG) captured the border crossing at Tal Abyad, 60 miles north of Isis’s capital of Raqqa in June. Turkey had kept that border crossing open while Isis was in control on the southern side, but immediately closed it when the YPG seized the crossing point. The Turkish authorities are refusing to allow even the bodies of YPG fighters, who are Turkish citizens and were killed fighting Isis, to be taken back across the border into Turkey.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3057446&forum_id=2#29278440)

retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3057446&forum_id=2#29279458)

Can we start construction next Tuesday?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3057446&forum_id=2#29281123)

The US couldn't possibly do this but Turkey nbd ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3057446&forum_id=2#29281153)

Libs, please explain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3057446&forum_id=2#30120242)

Libs?

http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3243827&mc=12&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3057446&forum_id=2#30628200)