U.S. military says not abandoning Kurds, condemns Turkish offensive

The Pentagon strongly denied on Friday accusations that it hadabandoned its Syrian Kurdish allies to a Turkish military onslaught, which it said was destabilizing the region and doing "dramatic harm" to U.S.-Turkey relations.U.S. President Trump's decision to pull back troops from Syria's border with Turkey has been widely criticized in Washington as a tacit "green light" for a Turkish offensive that intensified on Friday, with Turkish air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia."Nobody green-l