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)
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