1. A US official with direct knowledge of events tells me that the US has knowledge that Turkey transported Arab militiamen from one part of Syria west of Manbij into Turkey, to then cross back into Syria alongside the Turkish military in order to fight Kurds.
2. These are the militiamen carrying out atrocities like the execution of a Kurdish female politician (her difficult-to-read autopsy is below). We know Turkey backs these militias. But actually moving them from one part of Syria to another is complicity of a different order. 
3. According to the official, the movement of the militia fighters occurred around 2 weeks ago. Turkey didn’t just invade. If true, it planned an offensive *with* these militias, moving them across international borders to get them properly situated in the battle zone.
4. I keep on going over the autopsy of the Kurdish woman. Having traveled to these areas myself, I’ve sometimes nurtured the erroneous thought that my gender would offer me some protection. Who’d kill an unarmed woman? She was dragged by her hair until part of her scalp fell out.
5. For the kind people who are DM’ing messages of concern for my safety, I am thousands of miles away from the battle zone on maternity leave caring for my baby, but between feedings it’s very hard to look away from this.
