The Trump Administration Doesn’t Care About Allies
After the agreement with Turkey, we should expect countries that are most reliant on U.S. security guarantees to search for alternatives.
by Kori Schake
Oct 08, 2019
3 minutes
Here are the terms of the deal: Turkey takes responsibility for the 11,000 ISIS fighters, and 70,000 collaborators now in the al Hawl and Ain Issa detention camps by Syrian Democratic Forces; and the U.S. withdraws its forces from northern Syria so Turkey can invade. Turkey will establish a 30-kilometer zone into which it will forcibly repatriate 1 million Syrian refugees on Turkish land. It will combat both the Kurdish forces that have been fighting ISIS and the Syrian Democratic Forces that are the last obstacle to Bashar al-Assad
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