President Trump orders all U.S. troops to withdraw from northern Syria to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says. He did not say the 1,000 or so troops would leave the country entirely.
in Syria, President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the country’s north to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that “gets worse by the hour,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday.
He cited an incident on Friday in which a small number of U.S. troops fell under artillery fire at an observation post in the north. Esper called that an example of “indiscriminate fire” coming close to Americans, adding it was unclear whether that was an accident. The U.S. also has come to believe that the Kurds are attempting to “cut a deal” with the Syrian army and Russia to counter the invading Turks, he said. As a result, Trump “directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern Syria,” Esper said.
Esper did not say how many U.S. troops will leave the north, but he says they represent most of the 1,000 troops in Syria. Esper said he was aware of reports of hundreds of IS prisoners escaping as a result of the Turkish invasion and of atrocities being committed against Syrian Kurds by members of a Turkish-supported Syrian Arab militia.
“We did not sign up to fight Turkey, a longstanding NATO ally, on behalf of the . This is a terrible situation,” he said.
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