The commander of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces reportedly told an American diplomat on Thursday that the United States is “leaving us to be slaughtered,” days after President Trump withdrew troops from northern Syria.
CNN reported Saturday that Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi told William Roebuck, deputy special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, “You have given up on us. You are leaving us to be slaughtered.”
Kobani is the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who have been vital allies to the U.S. in the war on terror and fight against ISIS.
