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Turkey's Erdogan threatens to "crush" former U.S. allies in Syria

Thousands of the Kurdish-led fighters died battling ISIS, and now say they've been betrayed by America.
About 200,000 civilians have fled the clashes with Turkey, and a Kurdish lawmaker called on President Trump Monday to stop what she called "ethnic cleansing" of the Kurds in northern Syria.
Turkey, however, insists its offensive has not targeted civilians. Erdogan's government views the Kurdish-led forces as terrorists linked to a separatist movement based in southern Turkey.
Syria's Russian-backed President Bashar Assad has lambasted Turkey for its offensive on his soil and chided the Syrian Kurds for seeking help from the U.S.
On Tuesday the Syrian dictator paid a visit to his troops on the front lines of Idlib province, in territory recently reclaimed from Turkish-backed militias. It was his first visit to the province in seven years. 
Arriving in the southern countryside of Idlib, Assad strongly denounced Erdogan for the incursion into northern Syria, calling him "a thief."
"He has robbed the factories, wheat, and oil, and today he is robbing the land," Assad asserted. 
Since the U.S. began moving its forces out of the region, the long-time U.S. allies of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who for years helped the U.S. battle ISIS while also fending off attacks from Assad's forces, have formed limited partnerships with the Syrian leader's Russian-backed regime.  
President Trump has warned Erdogan to restrain his forces and threatened to destroy Turkey's economy if the offensive goes too far. But on Monday, Mr. Trump also said the U.S. had "never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives."
 CBSNews | 8 minutes ago

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