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  • REBIRTH OF THE ISIS INSURGENCY.

  • SHEP?

  • >> Shepard: JENNIFER GRIFFIN

  • LIVE FROM THE PENTAGON.

  • EVANS IS

  • LIVE WITH US FROM ISTANBUL.

  • CAN YOU SPEAK TO WHAT JENNIFER

  • JUST SAID?

  • THE POSSIBILITY OF THOSE ISIS

  • FIGHTERS, SOME 10,000 OF THEM,

  • BEING RELEASED.

  • >> WHILE THERE ARE A HUGE NUMBER

  • OF ISIS FIGHTERS BEING HELD BY

  • THE FDS FORCES WHICH ARE THE

  • KURDISH FORCES THAT WERE ALLIED

  • WITH THE UNITED STATES AND HAD

  • BEEN FIGHTING WITH U.S. SUPPORT

  • AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE IN

  • SYRIA FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.

  • THEY'VE GOT THOUSANDS OF

  • CAPTIVES IN THEIR TERRITORY.

  • WHAT'S NOT CLEAR AT THIS STAGE

  • IS HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE BEING

  • HELD IN FACILITIES THAT ARE

  • WITHIN THE AREA THAT THE TURKISH

  • ARMED FORCES WILL BE GOING INTO.

  • AND ITS MAIN TARGET HAS BEEN THE

  • KURDISH WHITE PG FORCES.

  • AND, WHAT CAN THEY TELL US IN

  • THE INVASION THAT'S HAPPENING

  • NOW, AND THE STATUS OF CIVILIANS

  • IN THAT AREA.

  • >> THIS IS DEVELOPING AS WE

  • SPEAK.

  • ABOUT SIX HOURS AGO, WHEN THERE

  • WERE SOUNDS OF EXPLOSIONS, AND

  • SINCE THEN WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT

  • STRIKES IN SEVERAL OTHER TOWNS,

  • ONE OF THEM ABOUT 20 MILES

  • INSIDE OF SYRIA AND TO OTHERS IN

  • THE EXTREMES.

  • THE ARTILLERY STRIKES AND THE

  • AIR STRIKES ARE HAPPENING

  • AGAINST SEVERAL TARGETS, FOR

  • MANY YEARS NOW, THE

  • UNITED STATES HAS HELD UP THESE

  • KURDISH FIGHTERS, AND THESE ARE

  • THE BEST PARTNERS ON THE GROUND.

  • IT WAS THOSE KURDISH FIGHTERS,

  • AND THAT IS THE LEADER'S

  • REACTION TO BEING ABANDONED BY

  • THE UNITED STATES.

  • >> THERE'S A LOT OF ANGER, THEY

  • DESCRIBED THIS AS BETRAYAL AND

  • DESCRIBE BUSINESS AS A STAB IN

  • THE BACK.

  • AND THIS TURKISH OFFENSIVE WHICH

  • IS TAKING PLACE TODAY HAS COME

  • DESPITE LONG WARNINGS FROM

  • TURKEY.

  • IN EFFECT IT HAS COME VERY, VERY

  • QUICKLY SO IT'S VERY DRAMATIC

  • AND IT'S FAST-PACED.

  • FOR THE KURDISH FIGHTERS WHO AS

  • YOU SAID TO HAVE BEEN FIGHTING

  • WITH THE UNITED STATES FOR YEARS

  • AND YEARS, IT'S A MOMENT OF DEEP

  • DISAPPOINTMENT AND BETRAYAL.

  • >> I HAVE JUST SECONDS LEFT BUT

  • FROM YOUR EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF

  • THE REGION WORKING AND LIVING IN

  • REPORTING IN THAT REGION FOR SO

  • MANY YEARS, HOW WOULD THE

  • RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN

  • VIEW THE CURRENT EVENTS?

  • >> WELL, ON ONE LEVEL, RUSSIA

  • HAS SAID IT WASN'T INFORMED

  • ABOUT THIS.

  • IT WAS NOT APPROVING IT IN ANY

  • WAY.

  • ON ONE LEVEL THERE IS POTENTIAL

  • FOR THE RUSSIANS TO GAIN FROM

  • THIS.

  • IF IT LEADS TO CHAOS ELSEWHERE

  • IN EASTERN SYRIA WHICH IS UNDER

  • THE CURRENT CONTROL COME FDS

  • CONTROL THAT WOULD GIVE THE

  • OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DAMASCUS

  • GOVERNMENT BACKED BY RUSSIA TO

  • MOVE INTO SOME OF THE TERRITORY

  • THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO

  • CONTROL FOR A VERY LONG TIME IN

  • THIS LONG EIGHT YEAR WAR.

REBIRTH OF THE ISIS INSURGENCY.

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