Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached an agreement on Turkey’s controversial military operation against the Kurds in Syria, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, announced on Tuesday. While the Kurds are not a party to the deal, Moscow has maintained communication channels with their leadership for years. Tuesday’s deal says that many of the areas the Kurds have left will be resettled by Syrian refugees whom Erdogan wants to remove from Turkey. Trump has repeatedly said the US has no responsibility to protect the Kurds, calling them “no angels” last week. Disputes over Syria are likely to become even a bigger headache for Trump.

Source: Huffington Post October 22, 2019 22:06 UTC