SDF: Turkish bombing kills 5 civilians, wounds dozens
The SDF said Turkish bombing of the border region killed five civilians and injured dozens more.Three SDF fighters were also killed during the air raids, the group said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile put the death toll at 11, including eight civilians.
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Excerpt: It’s hard to keep track of President Donald Trump’s betrayals of his country. First he solicited Vladimir Putin’s help in the 2016 election. Then he teamed up with Kim Jong-un to lie about North Korea’s arsenal. Then he covered up intelligence about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s role in the murder of a U.S. resident. Then he pressed Israel to deny entry to members of Congress. Then he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democrats.
In the midst of all this madness—most recently, the administration’s stonewalling of a congressional inquiry into Trump’s coercion of Ukraine—the president has ordered American forces to get out of the way of a Turkish invasion in Syria. The troop withdrawal looks like a distraction, but it isn’t. Trump is colluding with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, just as he has colluded with other authoritarians against the United States. The timeline of their relationship tells a story of disloyalty to America and its allies.
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Excerpt: Turkey has launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria after US forces pulled back from the area, with a series of airstrikes hitting a town on Syria’s northern border.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of the campaign this morning, which followed an abrupt decision on Sunday by US President Donald Trump that American troops would step aside to allow for the operation.Trump’s move represented a shift in US policy that essentially abandoned the Syrian Kurdish fighters who have been America’s only allies on the ground in Syria. They were longtime US allies in the fight against the Islamic State group.
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