The fallout from President Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria continues. And in this week's edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, a student in close contact with the Kurdish forces says a serious loss of life is about to occur.
In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, smoke billows from targets in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, during bombardment by Turkish forces, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Wednesday on Syrian Kurdish fighters to leave a designated border area in northeast Syria ‘as of tonight’ for Turkey to stop its military offensive, defying pressure on him to call a ceasefire and halt its incursion into Syria, now into its eighth day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
The fallout from President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, allowing Turkey to launch attacks on the Kurdish forces that have helped the U.S. fight ISIS, is continuing.
And in this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Etham Coban, a doctoral candidate at American University Washington College of Law who specializes in international law and Kurdistan, says a serious loss of life is about to occur.
JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.
