turkey today began a military offensive in northern syria, provoking worries of a massacre in the region and also stirring rare republican condemnation of president trump. the president s decision to order u.s. troops out of northern syria cleared the way for this turkish military operation. it is against kurdish forces, who have been a critical u.s. ally. turkey bombed two cities in northern syria. you can see here turkish fighter jets roaring through the skies. syrian democratic forces in the region say there have already been civilian casualties. they are pleading with the united states and other allies to impose a no-fly zone. arwa, hard to get information from this region anyway, especially early in such an operation. but what are we hearing? reporter: well, as you mentioned there the operation
turkish military operation. the real issue, i think, being exactly what has been the impact of the wildly vacillating signals that the turkish government would have been getting. initially it seemed like a blank check on sunday night to launch an operation and now suggestions of support for the syrian kurds from donald trump and even suggestions that if president erdogan steps over any lines they could face obliteration. so make of that what you will. certainly the one person who has to make a decision about that from those mixed signals is president erdogan. his administration will begin shortly. it does appear obviously this has been one of the towns in which u.s. troopers have withdrawn from. it does appear jumping by the atmospherics here, there s not a
turkish incursion from there. in fact, it was about 4:00 local time, six hours ago, when there were sounds of explosions to syrian border towns right on the border with turkey. since then, we have learned about strikes in several other towns, one of them 20 miles inside of syria. and two others on the extremes, if you like come a long 300-mile stretch from a port strip between the two countries. off to the east and the west. and so it is the artillery strikes and air strikes that are happening against several targets spread over a wide area at the moment. bret: dominic evans, in stubble of reuters. warning of what they called humanitarian catastrophe brought on by the turkish military operation. part of that story from the
now they re accusing president trumbull s abandoning them and leaving them exposed to a turkish military assault the turkish government on the other hand has long pushed for a military operation in syria s north east because it considers the syrian kurdish fighters that terrorists and the threat to turkey s national security turkish president of add one also says he plans to resettle at least 2000000 syrian refugees in what he calls a safe zone but many questions remain on oncet it is unclear for example what scope this turkish military operation might have and when it might start. voting there from our correspondent you here hon in istanbul now the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to 3 scientists from the united states and britain they were chosen for their pioneering discoveries of the way blood cells sense an adapt to the body s oxygen availability is 1st prize an ounce by the nobel committee this
u.s.-backed kurdish fighters, critics say he was abandoning the kurds. national security adviser adding that isis will completely defeated before the united states withdraws. trump administration officials say that part of bolton s business was to ensure is rallies that president trump will not rush to withdraw like he had previously indicated. just last week, president trump extended timeline to 30 days to 4 months, now time ien appears to be open-ended with bolton s new comments, some will be removed from syria and others to iraq. following visit to israel, bolton will head to turkey to meet about u.s. withdrawal and protect kurdish from turkish military operation. fox news. heather: much more to come on that. president trump says he s in no rush to fill handful cabinet