Reports: Turkey Bombs US Forces by Mistake in Syria

Smoke rises from Tel Arkam village in Ras al Ain countryside, Syria, on Oct. 10, 2019. Stringer/Reuters

Turkey has reportedly shelled U.S. forces in Syria during an operation that apparently was a mistake.

A Pentagon official and an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official told Newsweek on Friday that U.S. Special Forces came under fire in northern Syria in Kurdish-controlled territory amid Turkey’s “Operation Peace Spring.”