Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have ordered an incursion into Syria whether or not President Trump kept a small contingent of American forces there, according to Brit Hume. After the president ordered the removal of troops from the area, he received bipartisan backlash for leaving the American-aligned Kurds to fend off Turkish troops themselves. Hume added if American forces remained, there is no reason why Erdogan wouldn't have put them in harm's way. "They could've been killed by Turkish forces," he said. The order would enable "powerful" additional sanctions against those who "may be involved in serious human rights abuses, obstructing a ceasefire, preventing displaced persons from returning home, forcibly repatriation refugees, or threatening the peace, security, or stability in Syria," Trump wrote.

Source: Fox News October 14, 2019 23:37 UTC