AGENCIES: The US Senate majority leader has lashed out at President Donald Trump for his policy on Syria.
In a Washington Post opinion piece, Mitch McConnell says fellow Republican Trump’s troop withdrawal order combined with Turkey’s Syria assault was a “strategic nightmare”.
On Wednesday the president called the Turkey-Syria border situation “strategically brilliant” for the US.
Sporadic fighting continues in the region despite a US-brokered pause.
Under the deal, Turkey agreed to halt its operation for five days while Kurdish fighters leave the area. Ankara first launched its assault after Trump withdrew all US forces from the border.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s operation aims to push Kurdish fighters – regarded by Turkey as terrorists – away from northernmost Syria and create a “safe zone” for resettling up to two million Syrian refugees currently in Turkey.
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