Summary
President Donald Trump's special envoy for Syria said Wednesday that U.S. forces had seen evidence of war crimes by Turkish forces in Syria during their recent offensive against Kurds. "We haven't seen widespread evidence of ethnic cleansing" by Turkey, but there had been reports of "several incidents of what we consider war crimes," James Jeffrey, special representative for Syria, said at a House of Representatives hearing.
He said U.S. officials were looking into those reports and had demanded an explanation from Turkey's government.
Turkey launched a military operation in Syria after the U.S. president agreed to pull out American troops who were allied with the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led group that bore the brunt of the fight against Daesh.
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