WASHINGTON DC - Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to United States President Donald Trump, on Friday said that no part of the world can be used to "execute mass casualty attacks against US citizens," and thanked Kurds for their contribution in this regard. “The president’s policy is very simple. No part of the world can be used to execute mass casualty attacks against US citizens. It’s very simple. And God bless our Kurdish friends and everything they’ve done to make that possible,” Gorka, who is also a senior director for counterterrorism, told Rudaw on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Kurds have been one of the key allies of the US-led global coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) since the group took control of swathes of land in Syria and Iraq in 2014. There are around 2,000 US troops in Syria, mostly based in the Kurdish-held northeast Syria (Rojava). Their future remains unclear with the new authorities in Damascus and after Washington reached an agreement with Baghdad to pull its troops out of Iraq in September. “I don't know who said that, but we'll make a determination on that,” Trump told reporters late last month when asked whether he had said he would withdraw American troops from Syria.
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