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A Kurd living in Cyprus shouts slogans and holds a banner showing the U.S President Donald Trump, in front of the U.S. embassy to protest Turkey's offensive into Syria, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. The protesters, waving Cypriot and Kurdish flags as well as placards pledging support for Syria's Kurdish population, chanted slogans condemning Turkey's military action and urged for the withdrawal of Turkish forces. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Kurds slam Donald Trump: ‘I want him to know he’s responsible’ for deaths, ISIS resurgence

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, March 31, 2019, photo, a woman waits with her baby for aid supplies at Al-Hol camp, in Hassakeh province, Syria. An international aid group says it recorded 31 deaths in the final week of March among people making their way out of the last sliver of territory held by the Islamic State group and toward a camp for the displaced. The International Rescue Committee says Monday the highest weekly death rate reflects the desperate conditions of the mostly women and children who left the village of Baghouz for al-Hol camp. The IRC figures could not be independently confirmed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

U.S.-backed fighters clash with IS militants in eastern Syria

Associated Press

FILE - This undated photo released by the Metropolitan Police of London, shows Shamima Begum, a young British woman who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group and now wants to return to Britain. During an interview, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Sunamganu, Bangladesh, Begum's father, Ahmed Ali, said his daughter’s citizenship should not be canceled and that she could be punished in the United Kingdom if it was determined she had committed a crime. (Metropolitan Police of London via AP, File)

Official: Baby of British IS bride dies in Syria

Associated Press

FILE - This frame grab from a video provided by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), shows fighters from the SDF opening fire on an Islamic State group's position, in Raqqa's eastern countryside, Syria, Monday, March 6, 2017. The main U.S.-backed force fighting the Islamic State group in Syria has enough fighters to capture the extremists' de facto capital of Raqqa north of the country at a time when U.S. troops are playing a bigger role on the ground in the battle to conquer the city, a spokeswoman for the force said Friday, March 10, 2017. (Syria Democratic Forces, via AP)

Backed by US troops, SDF confident can capture IS ‘capital’

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press