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Donald trumps withdrawal from this buffer zone. he has reinforced their control more or less over the oil-rich south of the country. and there are hopes as the defense secretary said they would actually use that oil to help pay for guarding the prisoners, but ultimately the europeans are torn particularly with the isis fighters, but even the families as to whether they come home. at the moment theyre langui languishing in the camps but potentially could be released and become another army. >> sa...

Prisoners. whats the fate of them? >> reporter: well, dave, that is ultimately almost the strategic issue here is the fate of 70,000 at least women and children associated or alleged to be associated with isis fighters, and then some 10,000 isis fighters held in prisons guarded by the syrian democratic forces. now, most of these prisons lie in camps just outside the 32 kilometer, 25-, 27-mile buffer zone thats been established. relatively successful so far with the russians and turks saying that...

To ask the syrian government for help but he had no choice considering the turks were coming down. >> bill: how are the kurds handling the situation on the ground? >> frankly not very well. thats one of the reasons theyve reached out to the syrian government. they were so horribly underground on the front lines that they had no other choice. its something that we saw. we are with the kurds were fighting with whatever they can get their hands on. the turkish army out there, one of the most advanc...

Syria will be a mess for a long time. theres going to be new islamic groups rising there. and sealing that border is very difficult. turkey is playing a dangerous game. turkey knows that getting rid of baghdadi isnt the end of this war. thats one of the reasons they insisted on going in. they had airports attacked. they lost a lot of people. they are sitting on a volcano. so, one of the reasons they convinced trump to pull out of syria. they stepped in and did it themselves. >> reporter: in the ...

Contact. they were doing it over the internet. this is a modern movement. medieval on one hand. but they knew what they were doing. the only way to defeat them was militarily. that comes back to the kurds, who played such an important role to close baghdadi down. the reason he fled to the idlib area is because of the kurds. lets not forget that. >> a good point to be made. we were just reporting that turkey said to russia, if you cant get the kurdish forces out of the buffer zone, we will go in ...

Governments had to be notified in a very conflicted part of the world in order for this operation to go as smoothly as it did. >> certainly. and, obviously, the president offered his thanks for those governments for agreeing to deconflict and allow u.s. forces into air space controlled in this case by the turks and the russians. and he also, it should be noted, offered thanks to the syrian kurds who, obviously, the president has been in conflict with, if you will, over the past several weeks giv...

With turkey only weeks ago u.s. forces patrolled here now the guard has changed. russian forces share control of the border with turkish troops and with the syrian army in a buffer zone that is 30 kilometers deep. fascination summit in brussels secretary-general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart chip tayyip adult im encouraged by the fact that it also had a sphere have seen a significant reduction in...

Theres simply no neat. a russian patrol winds its way through the syrian town of commission on the border with turkey only weeks ago u.s. forces patrolled here now the guard has changed. russian forces share control of the border with turkish troops and with the syrian army in a buffer zone thats its territory kilometers deep. fascination summit in brussels secretary-general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and just turkish co...

Cyst. we have to make sure the fighters are held and we want to make sure that that buffer zone is neutral. were not going to jeopardize our nato relationship with turkey even though president erdogan is starting to become makeup more of a dictator than we expected. nonetheless, our ability to remain in the region, remain engaged even with the pull-back by reinforcing the forces that stay is the right move. >> charles: with all due respect, we may not want to jeopardize our relationship with tur...

>> its what many presidents have to deal with when it comes to foreign policy. the american peoples security is make the right decision based on that premise, you are always going to have some degree of political opposition that you have to deal with. what has happened here and people seem t to forget, theres an excess of 60,000 syrian democratic forces that are in the area of eastern syria, we are providing advice to them and re-coordinating for airpower. they are the main force to matter what ...