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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2019 file photo, Salwa Hanna with her children, who are newly displaced by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, carry their belongings after they arrive at the Bardarash refugee camp, north of Mosul, Iraq, For months, every time Turkey threatened to invade northern Syria, Salwa Hanna told her husband they should take their children and flee from the border town of Kobani. And every time, he told her not to worry, because the Americans were there. Now the Christian family is among an estimated 160,000 Syrians who have fled Turkey’s offensive, which began last week after President Donald Trump announced he would move U.S. forces out of the way, abandoning their Kurdish allies. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

‘Only God is with us’: A Syrian family feels betrayed by US

By ANDREA ROSA and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

People help the wounded after an explosion in the southeastern Turkish city of Suruc near the Syrian border, Turkey, Monday, July 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Ozcan Soysal)

Turkey: Blast kills 30, wounds nearly 100 near Syrian border

By Desmond Butler - Associated Press

Kurdish women, one waving a flag of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, right, flash the V-sign and applaud while lining the road, as the convoy carrying the body of Hanim Dabaan, killed in fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, is driven by through Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, June 11, 2015. Keith Broomfield, 20 from Massachusetts, died June 3 in battle in a Syrian village near Kobani, making him likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside Kurds against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Islamic State fighters kill 200 civilians in Kobani, Syria, activists say

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, southeastern Turkey, a Turkish soldier stands on an armoured personnel carrier as in the background a flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, is raised over the town of Tal Abyad, Syria, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Kurdish fighters with the YPG along with their allies Free Syrian Army, took full control of Tal Abyad on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the Islamic State group's ability to wage war in Syria. Mopping up operations have started to make the town safe for the return of residents, after more than a year of State group militants holding control of the town.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

White House claims credit for Kurds’ victory over Islamic State in Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photo released on May 20, 2015, provided by the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish fighters of the YPG, flash victory signs as they sit on their pickup on their way to battle against the Islamic State, near Kezwan mountain, northeast Syria. In contrast to the failures of the Iraqi army, in Syria Kurdish fighters are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country's northeast in recent days, under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes. (The Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units via AP)

Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Monday, April 20, 2015, a Kurdish refugee woman who fled from Kobani carries her belongings as she walks toward a border gate to return to her town, at the Mursitpinar border crossing in Suruc town, Turkey. Three months since Kobani was liberated, tens of thousands of its residents are still stranded in Turkey, reluctant to return to a wasteland of collapsed buildings and at a loss as to how and where to rebuild their lives. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Kobani still a ghost town, months after liberation from Islamic State

By Zeina Karam and Mohammed Rasool - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, fighters from the Free Syrian Army, left, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), center, join forces to fight Islamic State group militants in Kobani, Syria. Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, marking a major loss for extremists whose hopes for easy victory dissolved into a bloody, costly siege that seems close to ending in defeat. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin, File)

James Terry: Islamic State pushed out of Kobani in Syria

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A Syrian Kurdish refugee child from the Kobani area, peers from a tent on a cold morning at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Islamic State group ousted from Syria’s Kobani; Kurds celebrate victory

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, photo, a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter shows the extent of the damage from a truck bomb in Kobani, Syria. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin)

Islamic State group attacks Kobani, Syria, from Turkey, Kurds say

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Monday, Nov. 4, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Office of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, shows Islamic state group fighters in Kobani, Syria. For a force that has built its reputation on projecting an aura of momentum and invincibility, the prolonged stalemate in Kobani is a setback for Islamic State militants with potential implications in terms of recruitment and support. More than two months into its assault on Kobani, the Islamic State group still pours fighters and resources into trying to take the besieged Kurdish town, but the drive has been blunted. Aided by 270 U.S. airstrikes, the town&#8217;s determined Kurdish defenders appear to be gaining momentum, a potentially bruising reversal for the militants who only few weeks ago seemed unstoppable in their march to victory. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Office, File)

Islamic State group’s drive for Kobani is blunted

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

In this Oct. 28, 2014, file photo, smoke and flames rise from an Islamic State fighters' position in the town of Kobani during airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition seen from the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Islamic State group abused captive Kurdish children, report says

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

To the rescue: Iraqi peshmerga fighters have entered the northern Syrian town of Kobani to join the Kurdish resistance. The forces have coordinated attacks against Islamic State militants, who have been besieging the strategic city for weeks. (Associated Press)

Turkey allows Iraqi reinforcements for Kurds battling Islamic State in Kobani

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

Peshmerga troops start entering Syrian border town

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Syrian rebels enter Kurdish town from Turkey

By Elena Becatoros and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A man speaks on a cellphone while watching the town of Kobani during airstrikes by the US led coalition on the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Iraqi Kurds head for Kobani to join fight against Islamic State

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War Loot: Islamic State militants rummage through a cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish forces battling the extremist group in Kobani, Syria, but "now they are spoils for the mujahedeen," one militant said. (Associated Press)

Islamic State seizes airdropped U.S. weapons as Kurds await troop reinforcements

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

U.S. airdrops 27 bundles of weapons on Syrian town

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Marco Rubio: ‘Deeply demoralizing’ if Islamic State succeeds in Kobani

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Turkish soldiers on a tank hold their position on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. The fighting over Kobani has brought Syria's civil war yet again to Turkey's doorstep and allies have tried to press Ankara to take a more robust role in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

U.S.-led coalition ramps up strikes on Syrian town

By RYAN LUCAS and DESMOND BUTLER - Associated Press