“I can't assess whether that's true or not without having people on the ground.”
Sec. of Defense Mark Esper responding to a question about whether or not prisons in northern Syria holding ISIS fighters are secure as he traveled to Afghanistan.
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oct 21, 2019
- Thousands of terrorists and their families were being held in prisons supervised by Kurdish forces, who have now been pushed out by Turkey.
- U.S. forces once working with the Kurds are now being moved to Iraq.Secretary of Defense Esper Media Engagement En Route to Afghanistan
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/1993241/secretary-of-defense-esper-media-engagement-en-route-to-afghanistan/