Us Troops Syria

• Turkey signals it will not resume offensive against Kurds in northeast Syria

  Turkey's defence ministry said the U.S. had announced the Syrian Kurdish fighters had completed their pullout from areas Turkey invaded earlier this month.

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  Oct 23, 2019
  
• Kurdish soldiers, civilians evacuate Syrian town in first pull-back under cease-fire

  Sunday’s ministry statement said that Syrian Kurdish fighters have violated the three-day-old cease-fire some 20 times.

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  Oct 20, 2019
  
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• Turkish troops, Kurdish forces battle for key town along Syrian border

  The United States also called on Turkey to stop the offensive and declare a cease-fire, while European Union countries moved to broaden an arms sale embargo against their easternmost ally.

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  Oct 15, 2019
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• U.S. troops weigh options for exits in Syria as Trump threatens sanctions on Turkey

  The Turks began attacks in Syria against the Kurds, longtime U.S. battlefield allies against IS, after President Donald Trump declared U.S. troops would stay out of the fight.

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  Oct 14, 2019
• Trump has ordered U.S. troops to leave northern Syria, move south: Defence chief

  Esper isn't saying how many U.S. troops will leave the north, but he says they represent most of the 1,000 troops in Syria.

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  Oct 13, 2019
• Trump defends pulling troops from northern Syria, says he is an ‘island of one’

  Trump remained steadfast and defended a move that drew widespread bipartisan criticism that he has endangered stability in the Middle East and risked the lives of Syrian Kurdish allies who helped the U.S. bring down the Islamic State group in Syria.

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  Oct 13, 2019
• ‘Stupid endless wars’: Trump defends decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria

  Turkey launched its offensive Wednesday against Kurdish fighters in Syria, who have helped the U.S. against the Islamic State.

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  Oct 9, 2019
• Turkey’s military attack against Kurds could redraw map of Syrian conflict

  Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday, with air strikes hitting the border town of Ras al Ain.

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  Oct 9, 2019
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• Trump defends decision to abandon Kurdish allies, pull U.S. troops from Syria

  Trump declared U.S. troops would step aside for an expected Turkish attack on the Kurds, who have fought alongside Americans for years, but he then threatened to destroy the Turks’ economy if they went too far.

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  Oct 8, 2019