SYRIA, THE PRESIDENT ORDERING

U.S. TROOPS OUT OF THE AREA,

ABOUT ONE THOUSAND, THIS COMES

AS TURKEY PRESSES FORWARD WITH

DEFENSIVE AGAINST KURDISH

FIGHTERS AMID FEARS OF A MASS

SLAUGHTER OF OUR KURDISH ALLIES

AND CIVILIANS.

NOW SYRIAN OFFICIALS ARE SAYING

THAT IN THE WAKE OF THAT ASSAULT

HUNDREDS OF ISIS PRISONERS HAVE

ESCAPED.

TREY YANGST LIVE IN JERUSALEM

WITH MORE.

>> MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS THIS

WEEKEND IN NORTHERN SYRIA AS

TURKEY DOES CONTINUE ITS ADVANCE

ON KURDISH FORCES, WE ARE

GETTING BREAKING NEWS IN JUST

NOW ABOUT A DEAL THAT HAS BEEN

BROKERED WITH THE ASSAD REGIME,

KURDISH FORCES ARE GOING TO

PARTNER WITH THE SYRIAN REGIME

OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD, THIS WAS

BROKERED BY THE RUSSIANS IN AN

EFFORT TO TRY TO PUSH BACK

AGAINST THE TURKISH INVASION.

HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

ABOUT THE DEAL, IT IS GOING TO

ALLOW ASSAD FORCES, THESE ARE

SYRIAN-GOVERNMENT FORCES TO TAKE

CONTROL OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE

BORDER BETWEEN TURKEY AND SYRIA,

THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY ENSURE

THAT U.S. TROOPS CANNOT RETURN

SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN THE GOAL

OF BOTH THE RUSSIANS AND SYRIANS

OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS, THE U.S.

TAKES HANDS OFF APPROACH TO

DEVELOPMENTS, THERE'S EVIDENCE

THAT CIVILIANS BEING TARGETED

AND ISIS FIGHTERS ESCAPING

PRISONS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED MULTIPLE

TIMES THIS MORNING ANT THE

SITUATION SAYING HE'S DEALING

WITH CONGRESS ABOUT IMPOSING

SANCTIONS ON TURKEY, TURKISH

PRESIDENT ERDOGAN CLAIMS THAT

MORE THAN 20 KURDISH VILLAGES

HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY HIS

FORCES, ADDED THAT TURKEY WILL

ADVANCE 20 MILES INTO SYRIA TO

HELP MAINTAIN THE TERRITORIAL

INTEGRITY.

>> WE WILL DIVIDE TERROR

CORRIDOR 480 KILOMETERS DOWN THE

MIDDLE.

>> AS TURKISH AIR STRIKES

CONTINUE TO BOMBARD KURDISH

TOWNS U.S. FORCES ACTUALLY CAME

UNDER BUT TROOPS HAD TO WITHDRAW

FROM THE POSITION, THE BOMBINGS

TAKE PLACE SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC

FORCES AND ISIS FIGHTERS HAVE

ESCAPED AND 40 CIVILIAN

CASUALTIES HAVE BEING REPORTED

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE

OPERATION ON THE SYRIAN SIDE AS

WELL AS 18 ON THE TURKISH SIDE.

TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE

SITUATION ON THE GROUND, TODAY

WE ARE GETTING REPORTS THAT

TURKISH FORCES AND TURKISH

BACKED REBELS HAVE TAKEN OVER

KEY ROADS IN THIS REGION, IN ONE

INSTANCE PROMINENT KURDISH

POLITICIAN WAS REPORTEDLY

DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND

EXECUTED ON THE SPOT.

THE WORST OF HUMANITY IS

UNFOLDING TODAY IN SYRIA AS

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETS, CONGRESS

CONSIDERS SANCTION THAT IS WOULD

BE PUT INTO PLACE UNTIL A LATER

DATE AND THE WORLD WATCHES,

ARTHEL.

ARTHEL: TREY, LET ME CONFIRM, SO

YOU'RE SAYING THAT KURDISH

FORCES ARE COMBINING WITH ASSAD

GOVERNMENT FORCES BUT NOT -- TOT

GOVERNMENT FORCES BUT NOT -- TOO

THE EXCLUSION OF U.S.-BACKED

KURDS?

>> SO, WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE

A LOT OF THE KURDISH FORCE WHO

IS WERE PREVIOUSLY BACKED BY THE

UNITED STATES TAKING OVER TOWNS

THAT U.S. SPECIAL FORCES

ACTUALLY FOUGHT ALONG SIDE THESE

KURDS TO TAKE BACK FROM THE

ISLAMIC STATE, THOSE KURDISH

FORCES IN NORTH EASTERN SYRIA

ARE NOW GOING TO WORK WITH THE

RUSSIANS AND THE REGIME OF

BASHAR AL-ASSAD.

THIS IS A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

BECAUSE THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT

WESTERN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN

HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO IN SYRIA

OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME,

ULTIMATELY GET U.S. FORCES OUT

OF THE REGION AND THEN HELP THE

ASSAD REGIME REGAIN CONTROL OF

THIS AREA, WHAT THIS IS GOING TO

DO IS BASICALLY VANISH THE

ENTIRE KURDISH PORTION OF SYRIA,

THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ALMOST

A SOVEREIGN PART OF SYRIA

ALLOWING THEM TO OPERATE WITHIN

THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS AND THE

SUCH, BUT WHAT WE ARE SEEING

MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS DEAL

THAT'S BEEN BROKERED WITH THE

HELP OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT

IS THE REGIME OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD

WHICH IS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT MANY

OF THE KURDISH FORCES THEY WILL