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A graffiti of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is seen on the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, as a TV journalist works in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. The Turkey - Syria border has became a hot spot as Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said Turkey was intent on combatting the threat of Syrian Kurdish fighters across its border in Syria.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Australian PM worried IS may regroup in Syria

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Missouri’s Blunt, Hartzler clash with Trump on Syria

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Syrians flee shelling by Turkish forces in Ras al Ayn, northeast Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday the start of a Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

US moves 2 British IS members known as ‘Beatles’ from Syria

By DEB RIECHMANN and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Attorney General Edwin Meese, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: US doesn’t ‘endorse’ Turkey’s assault on Syria

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump’s plan for Syria withdrawal weakens GOP unity

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2019 photo, women shop in the marketplace at Al-Hol camp, home to families of Islamic State fighters, in Hasakeh province, Syria. The Islamic State group could get a new injection of life if conflict erupts between the Kurds and Turkey in northeast Syria as the U.S. pulls its troops back from the area. The White House has said Turkey will take over responsibility for the thousands of IS fighters captured during the long campaign that defeated the militants in Syria. But it’s not clear how that could happen. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US pullback could boost Islamic State group revival in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, joined by from left, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, speaks to media during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Pentagon leaders insist they were in the loop on Trump’s Syria move

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Activists gather in Lafayette Park across from the White House to protest the announced departure of U.S. troops from northern Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kurdish-Americans protest at White House against troop pullback

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint news conference after talks with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Erdogan is on a two-day official visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Trump shifts tone on Turkey in effort to halt Syria invasion

By ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talks during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, Monday Oct. 7, 2019 prior to his departure for Serbia for an official visit. Erdogan says American troops have started withdrawing from positions in northern Syria, hours after the White House said that U.S. forces in northeast Syria will move aside and clear the way for an expected Turkish incursion. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

The Latest: Turkey sends reinforcements to border with Syria

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 file photo, a fighter from the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF, stands guard inside a post where U.S. troops were based, in Tal Abyad town, at the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria. The region of northeastern Syria, where the Turkish president intends to launch an operation to carve out a safe zone, is one of the most combustible in Syria’s long-running civil war. A U.S. troop withdrawal and Turkish assault on the area risks re-igniting fighting in a corner of Syria only recently stabilized and where sleeper cells of the Islamic State group continue to operate. (AP Photo, File)

A look at who’s who in northeast Syria as war fears rise

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, a flag of Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, flies on a building in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey says it won’t bow to U.S. threat over its Syria plans

By Bassem Mroue and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

In this July 22, 2015, photo, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice participates in a briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Susan Rice, Obama national security adviser, slams U.S. withdrawal from Syria: ‘It’s just appalling’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A Turkish army officer jumps from his tank moving to its new position on the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Tensions have risen at the border between Turkey and Syria, on expectation of a Turkish military incursion into Syria. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey assault on Kurds advancing despite Trump warning

By Lauren Toms, Ben Wolfgang and Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

In this image provided by Hawar News Agency, ANHA, a line of U.S. military vehicles travel down a main road in northeast Syria, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces in Syria said American troops began withdrawing Monday from their positions along Turkey's border in northeastern Syria, ahead of an anticipated Turkish invasion that the Kurds say will overturn five years of achievements in the battle against the Islamic State group. (ANHA via AP)

The Latest: Classified briefing on Syria set for Hill staff

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A Turkish n armored vehicles patrol as they conduct a joint ground patrol with American forces in the so-called &quot;safe zone&quot; on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Tal Abyad, northeastern Syria, Friday, Oct.4, 2019. The patrols are part of a deal reached between Turkey and the United States to ease tensions between the allies over the presence of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters in the area. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

The Latest: UN chief urges ‘maximum restraint’ in NE Syria

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In this Aug. 22, 2019, file photo, provided by the U.S. Army, shows A U.S. service member watches as Syrian Democratic Forces remove military fortifications during the implementation of the security mechanism along the Turkey-Syria border in northeast Syria. (Spc. Alec Dionne/U.S. Army via AP ) ** FILE **

Kurds accuse Donald Trump of ‘stab in the back’ as U.S. forces leave northeast Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 4, 2018 file photo, a U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council soldier passes a U.S. position near the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria. Syria’s Kurds have been America’s partner in fighting the Islamic State group for nearly four years. Now they are furious over an abrupt U.S. troop pull-back that exposes them to a threatened attack by their nemesis, Turkey. The surprise U.S. pull-back from positions near the Turkish border, which began Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, stung even more because the Kurds have been abandoned before by the U.S. and other international allies on whose support they'd pinned their aspirations. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

For Kurds, US pull-back feels like being abandoned once more

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this March 21, 2018, file photo Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., attend a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring the Office of Strategic Services in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi and McConnell are coming together to see if a deal can be made to stop billions of dollars in government spending cuts. Failure to reach an agreement would usher in cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs of $125 billion next year _ a 10 percent drop from current levels.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Pelosi, McConnell lead Hill rebellion on Trump Syria move

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as they arrive together for a family photo at a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The White House says Turkey will soon invade Northern Syria, casting uncertainty on the fate of the Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S. against in a campaign against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump defends decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press