Addressing the nation live from the White House, President Trump said the Kurds did not play a military role in the 'dangerous and daring' raid, but provided 'some information that turned out to be helpful.'
Trump said Sunday the pullout of U.S. troops"had nothing to do" with the operation to take down al-Baghdadi.
Joshua Geltzer, a former top counterterrorism official on the National Security Council under Trump and former President Barack Obama, told NBC News that al-Baghdadi's death would not undo the damage of the U.S. withdrawal. “This is potentially a significant step in degrading ISIS' capacity to continue claiming preeminence in the jihadist movement, but it still doesn’t come close to overcoming the step backward the U.S. took in abandoning its ground partners against ISIS in Syria," he said.in March after years of fighting, supported by the U.S.
They continued to hold thousands of ISIS supporters prisoner in the northeast of the country, where they established a home in the early days of Syria's chaotic civil war.But Turkey has been determined to establish a “safe zone” for Syrian refugees, free of Syrian Kurdish fighters along its border with Syria.
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