of desur. get up, get up, my son, i beg you, his mother weeps. these are the people left behind to mourn. now they are bracing for the moment they will be left behind again as the u.s. begins to withdraw its forces from syria. they got what they wanted. they used the kurds to get rid of isis, and now they re leaving us, nishma says. america was supposed to have our back. almost every family in this town has lost someone in this war. and the very real fear here now is that when the americans leave, there will be mowar here once again. just across the border is turkey, which views the syrian kurds as terrorists. to the west is the brutal regime of bashar al-assad and its russian and iranian backers. kurdish military commander tells