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The incursion comes after the White House announced that U.S. forces would stand aside as Turkey launched the military operation in Northern Syria.
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Kurdish allies of the U.S. say the president's decision is "shocking." Sen. Lindsey Graham says Trump is doing "EXACTLY what President Obama did in Iraq with even more disastrous consequences."
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A White House statement late Sunday said Turkey would soon go ahead with a military operation in the country's Kurdish-dominated north and that U.S. forces "will no longer be in the immediate area."
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The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Oklahoma City in early 2018, and we're bringing you some of the stories that were recorded here. Locally recorded…
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The U.S. views the Kurdish group as crucial to battling ISIS, but Turkey considers them allies of another Kurdish group it classifies as terrorists.
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In his first interview since pushing through an independence referendum that resulted in an Iraqi military attack, Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani tells NPR he's still "very proud" of the result.
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Kurdish media outlets quoted the Peshmerga General Command as calling the attack "a flagrant declaration of war against the nation of Kurdistan."
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The vote is seen as a way to signal the ethnic minority's desire for self-determination, despite strong opposition from regional and international powers. Turnout reportedly was high.
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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Ishaan Tharoor, a foreign affairs writer for The Washington Post, about Turkish President Erdogan's visit to Washington, D.C. His bodyguards violently clashed with Kurdish protesters outside of the Turkish Embassy.
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Steve Inskeep talks to Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman the Kurdish Regional Government's representative to the U.S. about what that region needs in the way of assistance as it fights against ISIS.