In Iraqi refuge, Syrian Kurds curse Trump and Erdogan

Bardarach: “May God avenge us against Trump and Erdogan” is a common refrain among the thousands of Syrian Kurds who have taken refuge in Iraq since Turkey’s assault on their homes.
The numbers, which aid workers say have reached more than 7,500 since Turkish forces and allied militiamen launched the offensive on October 9, is increasing by the hundreds on a daily basis.
They have been crossing to Bardarach inside neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan to a tent camp previously used to shelter Iraqis fleeing the Islamic State group.
The US-led coalition which backed the Syrian Kurds in defeating IS “has betrayed us and abandoned us”, said a woman from the battleground town of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border, declining to give her name.
She cursed US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan “who have caused so much suffering for our people”.
It was Trump’s decision on October 7 to withdraw US troops who had been serving as a buffer against a Turkish attack that cleared the way for the invasion of Kurdish-held northeastern Syria.