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December 26, 2018

U.S. Ends Support to Kurdish Militias as Turkish Troops Mass for Invasion
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This comes as the Trump administration is ending its support for a
Kurdish-led militia fighting ISIS, as Turkish troops mass near a
northern town held by the Kurds. Since 2014, the U.S. backed the YPG
militia with weapons and logistics, but is withdrawing the support as
Turkey prepares to invade Syrian territory it controls. Last week,
President Trump ordered the withdrawal of all 2,000 U.S. troops from
Syria. The pullout reportedly came after Trump spoke by phone on
December 15 with Turkey's authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The White House later said Erdogan had invited Trump to a meeting in
Turkey in 2019 and that Trump is "open to a potential meeting."


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