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Turkey escalates assault across Syrian border
Smoke rising from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad on the second day of Turkey’s military operation against Kurdish forces.  Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Turkey escalates assault across Syrian border
Shells and rockets landed in several Turkish border towns on Thursday, killing four civilians, including an infant, and wounding 70, on the second day of Turkey’s air and ground offensive against a U.S.-allied, Kurdish-led militia.
At least 23 Kurdish fighters were reported to have been killed, a monitoring group said.
American military and national security officials said that by allowing the attack on the Kurdish fighters, who did the heavy lifting in the fight against the Islamic State, the U.S. risks repeating a scenario that helped pave the way for the Iraq war.
ISIS: The American military is working to remove as many as several dozen Islamic State detainees from Kurdish-run prisons in Syria, including two British men now in custody who tortured and killed Western hostages.

Fact check: President Trump, under sharp bipartisan criticism, defended his decision to allow the Turkish offensive, saying that the Kurds had allied with the U.S. only out of self-interest. “As somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn’t help us in the Second World War,” he added. However, there is evidence that some Kurds fought for the Allies.

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