Turkey-Syria border: Kurds bitter as US troops withdraw
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Turkey has massed thousands of troops along the border with Syria US troops have begun withdrawing from positions in northern Syria, paving the way for a Turkish operation against Kurdish fighters in the border area. Kurdish-led forces have until now been a key US ally in Syria, where they helped defeat the Islamic State group, but Turkey regards them as terrorists. The main Kurdish-led group called the surprise US move a "stab in the back". But President Donald Trump defended the ...
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