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US warned Turkey only last week that attacking Kurds helps ISIS

By Joel Gehrke
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US warned Turkey only last week that attacking Kurds helps ISIS

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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