The U.S.-backed force has been instrumental in fighting the Islamic State group and pushing them out of northern Syria, including in Manbij.
Turkey is our ally...
How can Trump be so blind.
Turkey invaded the Afrin area of Syria, kicked out or kidnapped to Turkey any Kurdish fighters who had been protecting Afrin from both Assad and ISIS. Then this week he moved harvesting equipment into the Afrin area and harvested the Afrin people’s wheat harvest, to ship it to Turkey.
Erdogan is an Islamist megalomaniac we should not be making any deals with. Unless Erdogan is voted out of office - not remotely likely, Turkey should be kicked out of NATO and we should not be doing deals with it that mere help protect its genocidal actions against the Kurds.
I suspect Turkey is overstating tHe deal.
US has said that Turkey was originally promised control of area west of Euphrates. So a buffer zone arounf Manbij is a gain for the Kurds.