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US special envoy for Syria & the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Jim Jeffrey to Senate: "the Turkish incursion into northeast Syria is a tragedy, it was long standing US government policy in two Administrations to keep that from happening and we were clearly not successful."

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2/ Jeffrey re escaped ISIS terrorists: “we would say that the number is now over 100. We do not know where they are."

Jeffrey said POTUS knew his withdrawal decision meant "we would have less ability to work with the SDF against the remnants of ISIS."
3/ Yesterday Jeffrey told Senators regarding Trump decision to pull US troops from northeastern Syria."I was not personally consulted."

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