Baladi News
Bashar al-Assad has warned Kurdish forces battling against ISIS not to rely on America's support against a possible Turkish attack, saying: 'They will not protect you'.
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters backed by Washington are on the brink of forcing ISIS from its final patch of territory in eastern Syria.
But they fear that Turkey, which regards the Kurdish YPG militia as a terrorist group, will attack them once Donald Trump withdraws U.S. troops from the country.
'To those groups who are betting on the Americans, we say the Americans will not protect you... the Americans will put you in their pockets to be used as bargaining tools,' he said.
Trump announced plans in December to withdraw all of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria.
Speaking in Damascus today Assad said the Syrian army would return to the area after the U.S. pulls out, and he called on Syrian refugees around the world to return to Syria.
Source: Mail Online.