critics of president trump said he was abandoning the kurds after his recent decision on syria. adding that isis will also be completely defeated before the united states withdraws. trump administration official said over the weekend part of the visit to jerusalem was meant to ensure the israelis president trump will not rush the withdrawal like previously indicated. last week president trump extended his timeline for 30 days to four months. the timeline appears to be open-ended with old and still common. some troops reportedly remain in syria and others moved to iraq even once u.s. troops return for the region. he will have a turkey to me about the u.s. withdraw and desire to protect white bg kurdish fighters from a large-scale turkish military operation. during his trip, bringing messages for benjamin at yahoo!, but also a message for syrian president bashar al-assad. the message that the presidents administration and the redline of chemical weapon used inside of syria has not change
the kurdish forces and the turkish military. government forces were invited into this city but the kurds because they do fear a major turkish military operation that could lead to more violence against these kurdish forces that were previously backed by the united states. although the u.s. withdrawal will take place the next four months, the trump administration has indicated that america will still participate in the u.s.-led coalition against isis for the time being. heather? heather: thanks, trey. thank you. a new year and a lot of new faces in the white house. this is the first day on the job for patrick shanahan who earlier issued his acting memo as defense secretary. president trump chose the former boeing executive after james mattis said he was stepping down. his resignation came after the president called for the withdrawal of the u.s. troops from syria that we just
only acting on their own initiative rather than orders from damascus but despite these claims from our own current images on social media appear to show that some if not all of these fighters have successfully arrived in the main city of afferent were joined by syrian kurdish fighters weaver recordings of them shouting we will defeat the turkish autumn and invaders so it does appear at least some of these forces have successfully entered the syrian city of our for in and joined up with syrian kurdish fighters and we know their motivation behind the turks they do not want this autonomous kurdish region forming along their border there but what is the strategy behind damascus sending these militia into the area. well i think that that s the mask is concerned by this turkish military operation there have been initial hopes from their part that this would be a very small scale operation clearing out the border zone in syria and possibly