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in northern Syria, calling it a base for a Turkish Kurdish group it calls terrorists.
It's the same accusation leveled by Turkey, which backed Syrian opposition fighters, who later became the backbone of Syrian government forces.
The US fought alongside the Syrian Kurdish forces to defeat ISIS in Syria six years ago.
It has been trying to broker a negotiated settlement between Syrian-led forces and the Syrian government.
It says fighting between Kurdish and government forces will harm joint efforts to fight ISIS.
The Syrian military said Saturday it planned to push Kurdish forces out of Tabqa military airport in northern Syria, calling it a base for a Turkish Kurdish group it calls terrorists.
It's the same accusation leveled by Turkey, which backed Syrian opposition fighters who later became the backbone of Syrian government forces.
fought alongside the Syrian Kurdish forces to defeat ISIS in Syria six years ago.
It has been trying to broker a negotiated settlement between Syrian-led forces and the Syrian government.
It says fighting between Kurdish and government forces will harm joint efforts to fight ISIS.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's statement appeared to acknowledge that thousands of people have been killed in the protests.
Iran's foreign minister said last week the deaths were in the hundreds.
A U.S.-based Iranian human rights group says it has verified more than 3,000 deaths, most of them protesters, in demonstrations sparked by Iran's collapsing economy, much of it due to U.S.
Khamenei said while Iran does not want war, it will not let domestic or international criminals go unpunished.
President Trump had threatened Iran if protesters were killed, but said this week that the killings had stopped.