man for the U.S.-led coalition Col. Sean Ryan said their partner forces acted in "self-defense" after coming under fire from the western side of the Euphrates River • U.S.-led coalition forces, with their local Kurdish-led partners, are battling the remnants of Islamic State group on the eastern banks of the E

gress (KTK), has used the term "Kiirt cografyasi" (Kurdish geography) to emphasize that the heavily populated Kurdish regions of Turkey east of the Euphrates River are indeed parts of Kurdish geography and it is this region in which many of the depredations and atrocities committed by the Turkish Armed Forces