President Donald Trump decided earlier this month to pull U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria, allowing Turkey to attack the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds. READ MORE: https://abcn.ws/2J97IFy
President Donald Trump on Monday, again defending his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria — clearing the way for Turkish forces to attack U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds — said, “We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives.”
“We have a good relationship with the Kurds, but we never agreed to protect the Kurds. We have fought with them for three-and-a-half to four years. We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives,” Trump said speaking to reporters at a White House Cabinet meeting for more than an hour Monday afternoon.
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