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Many of the Syrian Kurdish refugees rushing to escape the Turkish-led incursion into Syria are carrying all they could grab as well as a sense of outrage at US troops they say abandoned them.

@MattMcBradley reports from a refugee camp in Iraq.

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@MattMcBradley “America has betrayed the Kurds,” says Rania, 20, from Qamishli, a city along the Turkish border that took heavy Turkish artillery shelling during the early days of the incursion last week. “We worked hand in hand, but no longer. Now there is no future for Syria.” (2/5)

@MattMcBradley Rania was among more than 800 mostly Kurdish Syrians who arrived at Bardarash camp in northern Iraq on Wednesday, fleeing fresh fighting whose ferocity caught civilians, aid agencies, Kurdish fighters and even many US soldiers by surprise. (3/5)

@MattMcBradley The massive military operation followed President Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw American troops from the border region between Syria and Turkey, allowing the Turkish military and its Arab proxies to fight Kurdish armies and displace civilians. (4/5)

@MattMcBradley “They want to get back. Nobody wants to stay in the camps,” says Rasheed Hussein Rasheed, a senior communications public information associate for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

"They want to have a better future for their lives as a nation.”

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