Trump: ‘We Never Agreed to Protect the Kurds for the Rest of Their Lives’

President Donald Trump at a press conference with Italy President Sergio Mattarella (not pictured) in the East Room of the White House in Washington in an Oct. 16, 2019, file photograph. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

President Donald Trump said that while the United States has a “good relationship with the Kurds,” America never agreed to protect the group.

The Kurds, an ethnic group found in parts of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria, fought alongside U.S. troops against the ISIS terrorist group in northern Syria.