SDF commander says US not protecting Kurdish held territory amid Turkish attacks

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) top general, Mazlum Kobani, suggested the US was abandoning its Kurdish allies after the US brokered a withdrawl of SDF troops from the strategic city of Manbij.

Kobani said the US provided "no firm position," on helping the SDF maintain control of the city that came under attack by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army. 

“There is no American decision to protect the areas we liberated together from ISIS,” Kobani, according to a report from CNN, citing a translated interview.