US warned Turkey only last week that attacking Kurds helps ISIS

Published October 7, 2019 6:34pm ET



President Trump’s decision to allow Turkey to attack America’s Kurdish allies in Syria reverses warnings issued last week by the administration.

“A conflict along the Turkey-Syria border would serve the interests of all the bad actors in the conflict and in the surrounding region — whether that’s Daesh [ISIS], or al Qaeda, or the Iranian regime,” Joel Rayburn, the special envoy for the Syrian conflict, said Wednesday.

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