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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 learned some of the kurds have already left their posts at those prisons. Just 24 hours after the white h...

Between turkish and kurdish forces in northern syria. this as we learn the pentagon is planning to deploy tanks and additional troops to the region to protect oil fields from isis. benjamin hall is live from northern syria with a fascinating report for us. >> the big news on ground that everyone is talking about is president trump's decision to send troops and tanks to eastern syria. not was the u.s. was deployed before but of importance and they'll move in to protect it from any possible insurgency and iran and russia. it is russia that we're seeing on the ground moving in. 300 troops today h...

With the regime moving in, a lot of experts are saying the regime could take over those isis prisons and isis camps. and that could potentially be used as leverage against the west. so there are a lot of moving parts. and nothing in this war zone is black or white. >> indeed. arwa damon, thank you so much for that excellent report from the syrian border. as arwa just said, this is a complicated conflict we're witnessing, but president trump considers this between turkey and the u.s. 4forces to be more black and white. >> sometimes you have to let people fight a little while, then you know how ...

We have repeatedly heard. the kurdish forces who are not only at the front lines going after their sleeper cells, going after smaller pockets of terrain they controlled. and protecting the isis prisons and refugee camp that hold the isis wives and widows. they had to pull back their forces from some of those areas to take on the turks. and they effectively said they were suspending their operations against isis. hence these great concerns that isis is an entity that had not been entirely defeated was going to be able to capitalize on the chaos and the vacuum as one u.s. official said. this mov...

And' ian, you'veepte alongside the kurdish forces on the front lines before, and tonight, you've reported that some kurds are no longer securing those isis prisons as they now try to defend themselves. how are they likely to respond to turkey? >> reporter: well, david, look, the kurds have far less firepower than the turkish military, but they are hugely battle-hardened and highly motivated. so, what we should expect is for them to step aside and allow the turkish military to come in on the ground, as they have already tonight, and then engage them guerrilla style, just as they did so successf...