Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has said the US did not “green light” Turkey’s latest offensive in northern Syria.
Pompeo was defending President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from the border, which has come in for significant international criticism. The move has allowed Turksih forces to launch an assault against territory held by the Kurds – an attempt, President Erdogan has said, “to prevent the creation of a terror corridor”.
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