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On the ground, those defending cobanny. there are funerals for the fallen every day. >> theyre burying the defenders here on the turkish side of the border. its too dangerous to hold any funerals now. but as soon as its free, theyre going to dig them up and send them home. >> a look at the front lines in the height of the isis onslaught. turkish leaders considers those cu kurds an enemy. >> were going to be covering that throughout the morning. many people across the world see it as a terrible m...

Border. the decision followed a phone call president trump had with turkeys president erdogan yesterday in a statement from the press secretary, the trump administration says that, quote, turkey will soon be moving forward with its long plan to operation into northern syria. the united states armed forces will not support or be involved in the operation and united states forces having defeated the isis territorial caliphate will no longer be in the immediate area. nbc news chief foreign correspo...

See americans out of that fight. is there any reporting that you have about his reasons here? >> yeah, i know the story very well. ive worked with the american special forces who are there, ive followed this story closely. president trump has wanted to do this for a long time. the kurds who are in this bubble in northern syria, again, they control an area of roughly 2 million people. there are about 50 to 60,000 of them armed. theyve had a decent amount of success controlling this area. its been...

Dismantle the u.s. advisory mission and then this morning it appears the turkish invasion. the kurds will go to fight at those front lines. the potential for blood shed and instability is enormous. just one more thing, joe and mika. there are papproximately 2,500 foreign fighters who have been held in camps protected by syrian/kurdish fighters, these are the hardest of the hard core isis. of them there are perhaps a thousand europeans ready to stream back into europe and begin new terrorist oper...

Donald trump, now being betrayed by his administration. david ignatius said, and davids been over in syria and knows so much about the battle against isis. president trump is about to make pay major consequential mistake. hes informing that syrian/kurdish allies that u.s. is withdrawing from positions on the border abandoning security mechanism to allow an invasion by turkish forces. of course this is after the united states had them move some of their heavy equipment off the border in an act of...

Against the kurds in syria. the only thing preventing that has been the u.s. military presence. president trump has wanted to wash his hands of the situation from the very beginning. he has said repeatedly hes going to leave, hes going to pull the troops out. the americans and the kurds there have fought against isis, they defeated isis. hes wanted to do this time and time again but it was only when people like defense secretary mattis resisted that he had pause and didnt do it. this is the issu...