Jeffrey, the representative of the Trump administration in Syria, who is expected to quit the post these days, stressed that the United States had left the Syrian Kurds in the face of the Turkish invasion, because no one in Washington had promised the Kurds to protect them from any Turkish aggression.
He made the remarks in reaction to comments the the US has betrayed the Syrian Kurds during some Turkish invasion in the past years.
"Syrian Kurdish leaders thought that US field officials in Syria had given this guarantee to the Kurds, and that this issue had affected their confrontation with Turkey," he told Deffence One.
James Jeffrey emphasizes that what happened was a complex political issue. Defense One further quoted him as saying that the United States had supported the Syrian Kurds against Russian-backed forces and the ISIS.
The US Special Representative for Syria also stressed that the actual number of US troops in Syria is much higher than the number that has been mentioned by Donald Trump.
He added: "Donald Trump had only agreed to the presence of 200 US troops in Syria, but we did not tell our leaders exactly how many troops we have in Syria and the actual number of troops is much more than the number that Donald Trump agreed to."
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