ELDERS from the Syrian Tribal Council called on all forces to “liberate the sacred soil of Syria from the American and Turkish impurity” in a statement released on Monday evening.

The influential group said that US occupying forces must leave the country and called on all tribes to “join the ranks of the Syrian Arab Army to complete the liberation of Syria’s soil and rid it of a state of terrorism and chaos.”

Similar statements were issued by the council following its meetings in Aleppo in 2018 and 2019, as government forces retook control of large swathes of the country from a myriad of jihadist groups affiliated to Isis and al-Qaida.