Trump compares Turkey's attack on Kurds to 'two kids' in schoolyard

Donald Trump, after abruptly abandoning US allies, compared attack on Syrian Kurds by Turkish military to a schoolyard fight.  dressing in Texas' Dallas, Trump said, "sometimes you have to let m fight a little while," over Turkey's military incursion in Syria.

He ded, "Sometimes you have to let m fight. It's like two kids in a lot, you got to let m fight and n you pull m apart. But it was unconventional, but y fought for a few days, but it was pretty vicious. But Kurds are our friends, Turkey's our friend but y fought, I mean it was nasty."

'two kids' remark by US President came while he was praising 5-day ceasefire deal struck between US Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After meeting with US Vice President, Turkey agreed to clear PG Syrian Kurdish fighters from a 32-km 'safe zone' along border. 

RE| Donald Trump Writes To Turkey's Erdogan, Says, "Don't Be A Fool!"

Trump on October 16 said that he did t give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a 'green light' to launch a military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria. Furr ding that Turkish President Erdogan's decision did t surprise him because he wanted to do that for a long time and that he was building up troops on border with Syria for a long time. He said that did t give Erdogan a green light, "just opposite of green light." 

deal was reached 11 days after Donald Trump decided to pull out US troops from rast Syrian border, taking a dramatic shift in US foreign policy. Trump played down decision and defended abandonment of ir allies who fought ISIS along with US troops, saying Kurds are "t angels."

Families of ISIS group members escaped a displacement camp in rrn Syria where a Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces has sparked fierce fighting, Kurdish authorities said on Sunday. Some 12,000 ISIS fighters -- Syrians, Iraqis as well as foreigners from 54 countries -- are detained in Kurdish prisons, according to ir official statistics. displacement camps host some 12,000 foreigners -- 8,000 children and 4,000 women.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor confirmed that "around 100" foreign women and children from families of ISIS members escaped, without specifying ir nationalities. Turkey launched its offensive on Wednesday to push Kurdish-led forces away from rastern border area of war-torn Syria. 

RE| ISIS' Jihi Jack Spotted In Secret Syrian Prison On TV By Parents