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Exclusive: Military leader of Syrian Kurds tells US ‘you are leaving us to be slaughtered’

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By Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, CNN
Updated 3:59 PM EDT, Sat October 12, 2019
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A US military vehicle patrols a road near the town of Tal Baydar in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on October 12, 2019. - Kurdish forces in northeast Syria Saturday battled a Turkish push along the country's northern border as Ankara's offensive went into its fourth day, following a night of steady advances. Turkey is targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a key US ally in the five-year battle to crush the Islamic State group. The SDF lost 11,000 fighters in the US-led campaign. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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A US military vehicle patrols a road near the town of Tal Baydar in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on October 12, 2019. - Kurdish forces in northeast Syria Saturday battled a Turkish push along the country's northern border as Ankara's offensive went into its fourth day, following a night of steady advances. Turkey is targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a key US ally in the five-year battle to crush the Islamic State group. The SDF lost 11,000 fighters in the US-led campaign. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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