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  • Single statement by the White House on October 6 was all it took to completely upend a years-long

  • geopolitical balancing act in Northeast Syria

  • It said that Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long planned operation into northern Syria

  • And that the US military will no longer be in the immediate area

  • Seven days later there was chaos on the ground in Syria

  • Turkey is attacking US allies

  • The country's dictator Bashar al-assad is retaking territory and there are major risks of an Isis resurgence

  • at least

  • 200,000 people have fled their homes

  • Peers have a situation

  • deteriorated in just seven days

  • Sunday October 6th president Trump essentially Greenlight's Turkish president air diwan's planned incursion into northern Syria

  • As the US says it's pulling troops back the Turks want to take out long-standing Kurdish rivals

  • But these are the same Kurds who helped America fight Isis

  • The Kurds say they are being abandoned. We talked by phone to a local reporter

  • shamelessly Arab saloon in a limousine, Turkey

  • America

  • Many Trump critics and allies agree

  • The curse will now align what I saw because we offended them. Nothing better for Isis Monday, October 7th

  • United States forces withdraw from several positions in northeastern Syria including Televi odd until our calm

  • Tuesday, October 8th Turkish convoys and pro Turkish Syrian militias are seen moving toward strategic locations along the border

  • Wednesday October 9th

  • The Turkish attack begins air strikes and shelling send people fleeing many head toward the Iraqi border

  • others seek refuge near US bases

  • Kurdish forces respond by shelling Turkish territory

  • Turkish forces and their allied militias then escalate the fighting by beginning ground attacks

  • Thursday October 10th civilians are caught in the crossfire including children

  • Hospitals are overwhelmed

  • Friday October 11th

  • Kurdish forces struggle to both fend off the incursion and guard facilities holding Isis fighters and their families

  • Isis which had been gathering new strength claims a car bomb that killed at least one civilian and wounded several others and

  • Kurdish officials say five Isis members escaped from a nearby prison

  • That night Turkish artillery fire hits close to known US troops in the area Saturday, October 12

  • Turkish backed Syrian fighters kill Curtis prisoners

  • Have reen caliph the head of a Kurdish political party dies in a suspected targeted killing along the main highway

  • Sunday October 13 a

  • nearby air strike causes chaos

  • And I nice of prison hundreds of isis-linked female detainees later escaped the nearby camp according to a local official

  • The deadliest attack of the week occurs when the Turks strike a convoy

  • Killing a dozen people including civilians and leaving more than 50 wounded

  • President Trump announces a full withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria with only a small contingent remaining at one base at the southern border

  • Left with few options for defending themselves the Kurdish forces formerly allied with the US strike a deal with American foe

  • President Assad

  • They exchanged territory for protection against the Turks

  • so in just one week as the u.s. Retreats from northern Syria a

  • Dictatorship is back on the rise

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