Breaking: Russia announces its units are patrolling between Turkish and Syrian forces around city of Manbij following pullout of U.S. troops because Trump left a power vacuume for Putin to fill. washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
“The battles have taken a withering toll on Syrian civilians. The United Nations has said that as many as 160,000 people, including 70,000 children, have been displaced since the fighting in northeast Syria escalated nearly a week ago.”
The Kurdish Red Crescent said on Monday that said international aid groups had pulled their international staff from the northeast, leaving camps for displaced people with “extremely limited support.”
Mercy Corps, working in Syria since 2014 also withdrew. “This is our nightmare scenario,” said Made Ferguson, “There are tens of thousands of people on the run and we have no way of getting to them. We just cannot effectively operate with the heavy shelling, roads closing”
