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BREAKING: Defense Sec. Esper: President Trump has directed "a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern Syria," as the US has learned that Turkey plans to "expand their attack further south than originally planned and to the west." nbcnews.to/2MxzQTC
As news breaks Sunday morning of the expanding US withdraw from Syria, President Trump tweets of the US abandoning Kurdish forces:

"Others may want to come in and fight for one side or the other. Let them! We are monitoring the situation closely. Endless Wars!"
Turkish forces approached a key Kurdish-held town in northern Syria on Sunday, setting off clashes that allowed hundreds of ISIS supporters to escape from a camp for displaced people, the AP reports.
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