“We defeated the IG, we did our job, we must return home,” Trump quotes TASS.
The American leader also noted that US soldiers should not be present in Syria to protect the Turkish-Syrian border.
“The Kurds are leaving, and that’s good, let them have their own borders. But I don’t think that our soldiers should be there for another 50 years to guard the border between Turkey and Syria, ”he added.
Earlier, French and American leaders Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump had a telephone conversation during which they discussed the need to end Turkey’s source of peace Turkish operation in northeastern Syria.