Trump orders troops out of northern Syria; many escape Islamic State camps

AMMAN, Jordan - As President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the 1,000 remaining U.S. troops from northern Syria, hundreds of Islamic State family members Sunday escaped from a detention camp managed by Syrian Kurdish forces amid a Turkish barrage.

Meanwhile, the Kurdish militiamen, who had previously served as the lead fighting force on behalf of the U.S. in routing Islamic State extremists in Syria, said they had struck a deal with the Syrian government to stave off the Turkish onslaught.

The deal came as the Kurds suffered a swift collapse in their lines before a Turkish and Syrian opposition onslaught that followed Trump's initial withdrawal of a much smaller group of American troops from the border area, which in effect served as a tacit blessing for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's invasion plans.

The Kurds, who had led an American-organized umbrella group known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, announced the Russian-brokered deal with the Syrian government in a statement saying that, though