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FILE -- In this March 29, 2018 file photo, a fighter from the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council looks through his binoculars to Turkish-backed fighters' positions, at the front line of Halawanji village, north of Manbij, Syria. Sharfan Darwish, spokesman of the Manbij Military Council,w said Thursday Nov. 1, 2018, that joint U.S.-Turkish patrols will begin within hours around the northern Syrian town of Manbij, part of a roadmap for easing tensions between the two NATO allies. Ankara and Washington agreed on a roadmap in June amid Turkish demands for the withdrawal of the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia that freed Manbij from the Islamic State group in 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

US, Turkey begin patrols around northern Syrian town

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FILE - In this March 13, 2018, file photo, U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Joseph Votel testifies at the Senate Committee on Armed Services on Capitol Hill in Washington. Votel, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East says Turkish and American troops could begin joint patrols in a matter of days around the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

US, Turkey to soon begin joint patrols in north Syria

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Turkey says it will patrol north Syria town with US forces

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Turkish official says US and Turkish troops to patrol Manbij

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Turkish soldiers atop an armoured personnel carrier patrol the northwestern city of Afrin, Syria, during a Turkish government-organised media tour into northern Syria, Saturday, March 24, 2018.Turkey and allied Syrian opposition fighters captured the city of Afrin on Sunday, March 18, nearly two months after the launch of an operation to clear the area of the main Syrian Kurdish militia known as the People's Protection Units or YPG. Turkey considers the YPG a terror group and an extension of Kurdish rebels waging an insurgency within its own borders. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Collision point: U.S. forces in strategic Syrian town stand in path of Turkish offensive

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Members of the Kurdish internal security forces, right, pass next of damaged shops, at the scene where an explosion on Thursday hit a U.S.-led coalition vehicles, killing an American and a Briton soldiers, in Manbij town, north Syria, Saturday, March 31, 2018. The explosion on Thursday was the first to hit members of the U.S.-led coalition who have deployed to Manbij months after the town was liberated from Islamic State militants in 2016. An improvised explosive device went off during an operation against a known member of the Islamic State group in this mixed Arab and Kurdish town, the U.S-led Coalition said in a statement Saturday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk speaks to the Associated Press at an American outpost in the northern Kurdish town of Manbij, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. The top U.S. general in the coalition fighting the Islamic State group pledged American troops would remain in the town despite Ankara's demands for a U.S. pullout. Turkey launched an offensive last month to drive Syrian Kurdish militiamen out of the enclave of Afrin and has threatened to extend its operation to Manbij. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

At US outpost in Syria, US general backs Kurdish fighters

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Turkey's President and leader of Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the members of his ruling party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demands U.S. withdrawal from Syrian enclave

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This Tuesday, March 7, 2017, file frame grab from video provided by Arab 24 network, shows U.S. forces take up positions on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij, a flashpoint between Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, in al-Asaliyah village, Aleppo province, Syria. (Arab 24 network, via AP, File)

U.S., Turkish forces on course for clash in Syrian town

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Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia's Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and their delegations attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Turkey's military says the Turkish, U.S. and Russian chiefs of military staff are meeting in southern Turkey to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq. The meeting comes amid renewed Turkish threats to hit U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish targets in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (Turkish Military, Pool Photo via AP)

Top U.S. general in summit over crowded Syrian battlefield

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U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), fire an M777 howitzer at Kara Soar Base, Iraq. (Associated Press)

Islamic State exploits U.S. rules of engagement, Obama’s aversion to civilian deaths

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FILE - This undated file image posted on an extremist website on Jan. 14, 2014, shows fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria. The group champions a hyper-religious lifestyle grounded in its self-proclaimed caliphate, but most recruits have a superficial understanding of religion and are largely ignorant in the laws of Islam, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. (Militant photo via AP, file)

Coalition troops forced to allow ISIS fighters to flee Syrian battlefield

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