NEW: Chaos in Syria and Washington after Trump-Erdogan call: US forces in Syria got an urgent alert Monday morning to pull back. 'They were told, 'We're departing the field,'' senior US defense officials say.
WASHINGTON — American forces in northeastern Syria received an urgent, unexpected alert early Monday morning"We're departing the field," the messages said, according to current and former senior U.S. defense officials.
The U.S. and Turkey have been at odds over Erdogan's purchase of a Russian missile defense system, though Trump has refused to adopt sanctions against Ankara in response despite pressure from his own aides and members of Congress to do so.Turkey has long threatened to launch a military offensive in northeastern Syria, home to Kurdish forces who work closely with the U.S. but whom Erdogan views as terrorists.
If Turkey did launch a large military operation, Trump warned Erdogan, the U.S. would completely withdraw from Syria, according to one senior U.S. official. "We do not support [the Turkish] operation in any way, shape or form, everybody from the president on down, was working on the safe zone implementation," a senior State Department official told reporters Monday."The president made it very clear that we would not support this operation in any way, shape, or form."
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