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Of the turkish defensive on this day four, they are moving in across-the-boarder into syria, and the goal, turkey says, is to clear out a buffer zone of about 20 miles, and clearing kurdish fighters and they say this is an anti-terror operation, they have claimed control of the first major city once controlled by kurds, and they also say they control several major highways as well and the goal is to push in 20 miles deep, there about five miles deep in now its hard to get a clear count of the de...

Wenchs allies and all countries that respect the rule of law around the world. >> many people very much feeling for the kurds and being put in this position. lets look at the larger picture too. what are the risks? we know isis is still there. the kurds are holding isis prisoner. but who knows if they can hold on and of course theres a humanitarian disaster. >> and the question that has not been raised is what is the net resultf of the actions on the part of turkey? turkey has asserted, even tod...

To syria and the turkish military incursion there the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has warned turkey it could face quote consequences if it does nothing to protect still billions as it pushes ahead with its offensive in northeastern syria didnt say what those consequences would be but international calls for turkey to moderate its action in the region are growing thousands of residents fled on thursday as turkey pounded kurdish militia for a 2nd day. plumes of smoke disappear into the docketing s...

Trying to escape this violence. it is an eerily familiar pain in the region where a bloodiest civil war has gone on for eight, long years almost. and where the islamic state unleashed atrocities throughout the country. team fox coverage, reporting from the pentagon, first, steve from li iraq, steve. >> shepard this was day three of the turkish military operation against kurds along the syrian border, and they are pushing in deeper. kurdish officials say the goal is to establish a 20-mile buffer ...

Creating conditions and now theyre no longer jailing those fighters. the leader of isis is still alive and is kcalling for his gorilla fighters to attack these camps. i understand the frustration for how long the efforts have taken, but i think there is a misconception among many that there are tens of thousands of soldiers there. they were a depersonal by establishing that buffer zone that was working and keeping everyone focused on keeping a lied on that pandoras box. we have to stay on the of...

Mediating a deal between the turks and kurds, possibly tough sanctions. of the three popoptions, are anf them realistic? would you support any of them? >> first of all, we largely had an agreement. thats what this buffer zone was all about. and it was working well. all of our military tell us it was working well. the president has committed in my view one of the most significant national security blunders in what hes done here. at the end of the day, the kurds were in the midst of fighting along...

The kurds have had a population in northern iraq, iran, and eastern syria forever and ever. this is where the kurds are located. this is where erdogan wants to conduct his operations and create the greatest amount of slaughter. >> so lets talk about that. what we see there in the green stripe is the safe zone that turkey says it needs. 18 miles wide. what does turkey really want? >> running the length of the country. what theyre trying to do is get an internationally recognized buffer zone. turk...

World leaders occurring and know when to put the phone down. no further coordination in the u.s. government. >> talking about a call between president erdogan and president trump. why is the president going against the advice of his pentagon, the pastors who advise him? >> franklin graham. >> what happened that the president has made this move? >> right. general allen and you are both right to point out that president trump did not betray the kurdish allies. he betrayed the soldiers on what the ...

>> because why he did it is hanging out as a big question mark. why do this right now? we hear that there is an idea in the air that iran made a deal with putin and -- sorry. turkey made a deal with putin and that now trump was on the phone with erdogan and maybe there was a deal there as well and thats why this is happening. do you know anything about any of that? >> nothing whatsoever and this is the second presidential phone conversation of intenses. we dont know what was said. what we do can...

Screen. there is a lot of confusion here, john, about what exactly turkeys end game is and what this military operation is going to look like. we saw a lot of our military coming in. we also saw a few rounds going out from kurdish forces into turkey as well. that was just one town. this is a huge swath of border, more than 200 miles that turkey ostensibly wants to try to clear and create this buffer zone. no sense, though, really how theyre going to do that without avoiding civilian casualties. ...