text: Syria's Kurds Look to Assad for Protection After US Pullout - NBC New York
  Published Oct 13, 2019 at 6:30 AM | Updated at 7:53 PM EDT on Oct 13, 2019
  Turkey-backed Syrian fighters sit atop an armored personnel carrier in the southwestern neighborhoods of the border Syrian town of Tal Abyad on Oct. 13, 2019. Fighting has engulfed the border area in northeastern Syria since Turkey launched an offensive on Oct. 9 to push back the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, displacing 130,000 people so far according to the United Nations.