The maelstrom began with a shocking Sunday night communique from the White House: President Donald Trump had given Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a green light to launch a massive invasion of the Kurdish-held territories of northern Syria. U.S. special forces were ordered to pull back from the Turkish-Syrian border and let it happen. Their instructions: “We’re departing the field.”
It was an abject betrayal of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the mixed Christian-Muslim force of Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians and Arabs that has served as NATO’s primary and most effective anti-ISIS fighting force in Syria. Erdoğan, who has been waging …read more
Source:: Macleans
