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    ISIS Is Gloating

    The best one could say about America’s abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually.
    by Graeme Wood Oct 14, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Reuters

    Updated at 9:50 a.m. EST on October 15, 2019

    Yesterday saw jailbreaks from Kurdish-operated prisons and camps that contained ISIS supporters. The Kurds, now battered by the full force of a Turkish invasion approved by Donald Trump, have allocated resources away from prisons and to their own survival, which is threatened more acutely by the Turkish military than by the Islamic State. Kurds have fled, prisons have been left unattended, and ISIS members, including Europeans and other foreigners posing serious terrorist threats, have walked free or may walk free soon. ISIS propaganda channels are gloating. The forces that defeated

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