John Bolton said there is no timetable for the pullout, but insisted the military presence is not an unlimited commitment. Trump had faced widespread criticism from allies about his decision, announced in mid-December, that he was pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. “We’re pulling out of Syria,” Trump said Sunday at the White House. Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, a terrorist group linked to an insurgency within its own borders. In comments carried by the official Anadolu news agency, Ibrahim Kalin said the Kurdish fighters oppressed Syrian Kurds and pursued a separatist agenda under the guise of fighting IS.

Source: Huffington Post January 06, 2019 16:41 UTC