Embattled Kurds Cut Deal With Assad; US to Pull Back Another 1,000 Troops From N. Syria

Amid reports that Syrian Kurdish leaders have struck a deal with the Assad regime to help confront Turkey’s military onslaught, Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed Sunday that the U.S. was withdrawing 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria, to prevent them from being “caught between two opposing advancing armies.”