U.S. officials are alarmed that a buildup of Turkish troops and militias along the border with Syria could signal that a large-scale invasion into territory held by U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds is imminent.

Ilham Ahmed, an official in the Syrian Kurds’ civilian administration, wrote in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump that a Turkish military operation appeared likely, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, adding that Ahmed urged Trump to press Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against such a move.

The forces include militia fighters, Turkish uniformed commandos, and artillery concentrated near Kobani, a Kurdish-majority city in Syria on the northern border with Turkey, the Journal reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials. A Turkish cross-border operation could be imminent, one of the U.S. officials said.

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