ISIS Families Flee
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Started by joj - Oct. 13, 2019, 12:57 p.m.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-invasion-isis.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

"The attacks caused about 700 Islamic State families to escape a Kurdish-run camp. The American defense secretary also said the U.S. would pull about 1,000 troops from the area."

"Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper announced in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” broadcast on Sunday that the United States would be evacuating about 1,000 American troops from northern Syria in a “deliberate withdrawal.” About 50 United States troops were previously removed from the area in anticipation of the Turkish incursion.

He said that the United States found itself “likely caught between two opposing advancing armies” in northern Syria, and called the escalation of the conflict in the region a “very terrible situation.”

The defense chief added that the United States had learned that Turkey was likely to expand its incursion “farther south than originally planned and to the west”


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By metmike - Oct. 13, 2019, 1:09 p.m.
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Thanks joj!


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Defense chief defends Trump decision on Syria under questioning from Chris Wallace

                

        By Zack Budryk - 10/13/19 

  

"In the face of questioning from Wallace, who suggested Turkey might not have gone through with the offensive if Trump had not removed the 50 U.S. troops, Esper said the U.S. could not have prevented it.

“I think they were fully committed,” Esper said of Turkey. “We are not going to go to war against Turkey, that’s not what we signed up for.”

Wallace asked whether the troops could have served as a tripwire, and suggested that Turkey would not have begun the incursion if Trump had not announced the move to remove them.

Esper said U.S. troops should not be likened to a tripwire.

“I’m not one to classify them as a tripwire and sacrifice them, if you will,” he said.

“We only sacrifice them if Turkey goes ahead—maybe we would have stopped them,” Wallace countered.

Esper responded that Turkey was determined to press into Syria no matter what."

By metmike - Oct. 13, 2019, 1:20 p.m.
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Defense secretary says President Trump ordered US troops to leave northern Syria

https://fox8.com/2019/10/13/defense-secretary-says-president-trump-ordered-us-troops-to-leave-northern-syria/


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.

By metmike - Oct. 13, 2019, 1:22 p.m.
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By metmike - Oct. 13, 2019, 1:24 p.m.
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                bringing home the fallen            

                            Started by GunterK - Oct. 12, 2019, 12:17 a.m.            

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/40850/


                Continuing Mayhem in Syria            

                            Started by joj - Oct. 12, 2019, 7:51 a.m.            

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/40854/