Turkish Offensive News Today

Patel. We appreciate your time and hope to see you in a half hour. Tonight, Breaking News. After President Trump suddenly pulled u. S. Troops from a key part of syria, turkey now launching its offensive tonight on u. S. Allies, the kurds. The military assault now under way. Air strikes from turkey. The kurds, who had helped the u. S. In the fight against isis, now targeted themselves. And what about the prisons Holding Thousands of isis fighters secured by the kurds . Tonight, abc news has learn...

After a decade of civil war, Syria’s border with Turkey is divided. Yet long-term stability will require a peace agreement that treats the border as an indivisible whole.

The Syrian government seeks to strengthen its military presence in Ain Issa and the area overlooking the M4 international highway, which are under control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

After the deaths of 13 Turkish captives in Iraqi Kurdistan during a raid against Kurdish militants, Turkey might be weighing an offensive against Sinjar, but vocal objections by pro-Iranian groups heavily deployed in the area are bound to complicate such a mission.

Tell us whats happening. >> reporter: well, for more alisyn on that raid, senior turkish official is telling us that baghdadis sister was captured along with her husband and a daughter-in-law. they were captured in northern syria in a housing container, and now they are basically turkish authorities are interrogating them, and as you mentioned, they believe that this could potentially be an intelligence gold mine. theyre hoping to get insights into how isis operates, its something that would hel...

>> there were real concerns an hour ago when the u.s. brokered cease-fire was scheduled to end. there could be more fighting. this military offensive by turkey has created more than 170,000 displaced people. these are families mainly kurdish on the move trying to run from the fighting. talents that became ghost towns in the last several hours. people trying to get away from what they thought could be a renewed turkish offensive. thats not happening right now. it might not happen at all. in part ...

Prevent a resurgence of the islamic state. >> what we have got to do is pull them out deliberately, out of northeast syria, and make our preparations to go home from there. >> turkish offensive caused civilian casualties on both sides and displaced more than 176,000 people according to the u.n. the offensive also soured relations further between the u.s. and nato member turkey. with the u.s. at one point threatening to cripple turkeys economy with sanctions. for now, russia is the power broker. ...

The border between syria and turkey, despite a cease fire negotiated by vice president pence with turkeys president erdogan on thursday, both sides blaming each other for the cease fire violations. erdogan has given it a five day cease fire. he said after that pause in the fighting, if all kurdish fighters are not cleared out of the safety zone, he has vowed to crush the heads of kurdish fighters. heres erdogan. >> if it works, it works. if it doesnt, the minute 120 hours expire, we will continu...

Less holding. there have been some skirmishes today. there was some exchanges of fire. but mostly, it is in the one pocket where you were showing the plumes of smoke around this -- right on the turkish/syrian border. but in general, throughout the length of the area, it has been much, much quieter today than it has been over the last ten days or so. but the profound issues here remain what will happen next. there are deep concerns tonight among the kurds. the kurds are not at all happy with this...

Breaking news this afternoon as turkey targets krdish fighter in northern syria president trump makes his stance crystal clear. "that has nothing to do with us." moments ago president trump asked if he was surprised by turkish president erdogans decision to move forward on assault on that region. this is what he said. >> it didnt surprise me at all. theyve been warring for many years. its unnatural for us but sort of natural for them. they fight. and they fight long and they fight hard, and they...