US, Turkey begin work to create Syria buffer zone

A US delegation arrived in Turkey on Monday to begin working with Ankara on creating a buffer zone in northern  Syria , under a plan strongly rejected by Damascus.
Turkish and US officials struck a deal last week to establish the safe zone to manage tensions between Turkey and US-backed Kurdish forces in war-torn  Syria .
But Damascus has accused Ankara and Washington of violating its sovereignty with the “expansionist” and “aggressive” project.  Also Read Militants violated ceasefire 25 times in 24 hour, says Russia Turkey’s defence ministry said that six US officials arrived in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa on Monday to start setting up a joint operations centre, which is to open “in the coming days”.
No details have been provided on the size or timetable for the safe zone, but the deal appears to have provided some breathing room after Turkey had threatened an imminent attack on the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which control a large swathe of northern  Syria .
The YPG has been a key US ally in the fight against the IS group in  Syria , but Ankara brands them “terrorists”, viewing them as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has fought a bloody insurgency inside Turkey for 35 years.