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todefendcryptocurrencyplans BU.S. President Donald Trump has declared
a “permanent” ceasefire in northern Syria,
leaving Turkey and Russia in charge of
swaths of land and pushing out America’s
Kurdish allies.
In a White House address on Wednes-
day, Mr. Trump framed the development
in isolationist terms, casting it as part of a
broader plan to reorient U.S. foreign policy
toward non-interventionism.
“Let someone else fight over this long-
bloodstained sand,” he said. “The job of
our military is not to police the world.”
The President said most American
troops would pull back from Syria, but
some would remain to secure the coun-
try’s oil reserves. Mr. Trump, who has pre-
viously mused about extracting petroleum
and other natural resources from war
zones for American use, did not say what
he had in mind for Syria’s oil. “We’ve se-
cured the oil,” he said. “We’re going to be
protecting it, and we’ll be deciding what
we’re going to do with it in the future.”
TRUMP,AAmidchaos,
Trumpclaims
Syrianceasefire
is‘permanent’
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U.S.CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTONT
here were no Kurds at the table Tuesday
when Russian President Vladimir Putin and
Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan
drew up a new security arrangement that
will govern the Kurdish-inhabited region south of
the Turkey-Syria border. Instead, Syria’s Kurds voted
with their feet the following day by continuing to
flee a homeland they no longer see a future in.
Nineteen busloads arrived Wednesday afternoon
in this suddenly heaving refugee camp in an area
known as Iraqi Kurdistan, each carrying another 30
refugees.
The new arrivals pushed the population of Bar-
darash camp – which was empty before Turkey
launched a military operation three weeks ago – to
more than 8,000, 75 per cent of whom are women
and children.
Another 40 buses were expected to arrive in the
camp after nightfall, andthe regionalgovernment
says it is bracing for as many as 250,000 arrivals if a
Turkish military offensive – currently on hold – re-
sumes with its previous force.
The new refugees had heard little about the de-
tails of the pact drawn up by Mr. Putin and Mr. Erdo-
gan during their summit meeting in the Russian re-sort of Sochi. They were acting instead on gut in-
stinct: The American soldiers who had been sta-
tioned in the Kurdish regions of Syria were abruptly
withdrawn after a snap decision by U.S. President
Donald Trump.
In that American-created vacuum, Syria’s Kurds
expect only the worst from Mr. Erdogan, who initi-
ated the attack to clear the region of the Kurdish
YPG militia – whom he calls “terrorists” because of
activities aimed at establishing their own territory
in Turkey’s own Kurdish region – and Mr. Putin, who
has allied his forces with the regime of Syrian Presi-
dent Bashar al-Assad.
“The situation is bad. Everybody is leaving,” said
Raed Mohammed Sayid, a 32-year-old who arrived
on one of the 19 buses along with his wife and five
children. “I don’t blame the Americans, but it was
only safe when they were there.”
Like nearly all of the refugees arriving in Barda-
rash, Mr. Sayid said he had paid smugglers US$1,- an enormous sum for a casual labourer – to get
him and his family out of a part of Syria that Mr.
Erdogan and Mr. Trump insist on calling a “safe
zone.”
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KURDSFLEEINFEAR
FROMHOMELAND
AbandonedbytheU.S.,thousandsofrefugeesarescramblingtoleaveSyria.
TheGlobeisontheground,withMarkMacKinnonandphotographer
AndreaDiCenzoreportingfromBardarashcampinIraqiKurdistanNineteenbusloadsofKurdishrefugeesfromnorthernSyriaarrivedinIraqiKurdistanonWednesday.ANDREA DICENZO/THE GLOBE AND MAIL[MIDDLEEAST]