Former CIA Director and retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus says the US betrayed the Syrian Kurds, the country's longstanding ally in its fight against ISIS, by withdrawing US forces from the northern part of the country
Petraeus, who previously oversaw military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, criticized President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria on CNN's"State of The Union." "Well, I think we have abandoned our Syrian Kurdish partners. They took over 10,000 losses as the defeat of Islamic State was carried out," he told CNN's Jake Tapper.
"You know the Kurds, when I arrived in Northern Iraq as a two-star general up in Mosul and would go up there and they used to say, 'You know General, the Kurds' only friends are the mountains.' And I say, 'No, no, no. You have the Americans.' Well I don't think you could ask that now of General Mazloum who has also been highly critical."His comments come amid backlash over Trump's decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria.
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