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Our assistance and artillery support but they have been the ones on the ground engaging in hard-fought combat victories. >> julie: rubio talks about turkey's role in convincing the u.s. the leave syria. listen. >> the turks have spent weeks and months trying to get us to abandon the kurds. they see them as a threat. they think the kurds want to take over southern turkey and northern syria and create their own country and want them wiped out and they want us to stop partnering with them. they've been pressuring, phone calls and diplomacy and threatening that any moment they'll invade and warnin...

Remains unchanged. we continue our normal operations including observation posts in the border region to address the security concerns of our nato ally turkey. we remain committed to working with our partners on the ground to ensure an enduring defeat of isis. any reports indicating a change in the u.s. position with respect to these efforts is false and designed to sow confusion and chaos, except that was saturday and now it's wednesday and it is not false. what the president wants is all troops out of syria and the pentagon trying to come up with a plan to make that happen. john? >> remarkab...

Now, these two senior defense officials say the white house will ultimately announce this as early as today. u.s. military confirming that there are 503 u.s. troops in syria. even though defense officials acknowledge having more than 2,000 there at times. the u.s. military mission there has been to defeat isis but troops have also been used for a range of other reasons. everything from stabilizing efforts in recent weeks. secretary mattis announced observation posts near the turkish border earlier this month. here's what president trump seems to be saying -- he tweeted, we have defeated isis i...

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>> allahu akbar. >> reporter: his parents seem stoic together, proud but in pain. but later as his mother shows us ahmed's clothes she breaks down. in the room next door his father shows us his photos. tears he can't cry in front of his wife. they did everything together. a father-son team documenting their nation's pain. now directly a part of it. the sluggish pace of life as we drive through idlib province seems to belie the looming violence. it's the last remaining main rebel stronghold. turkey, russia, and iran have been negotiating to ostensibly come to some sort of agreement, to prevent ...