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- [Reporter] The Turkisharmy and its allies

pounded Syrian democratic forces, the SDF,

from the air and the ground.

The SDF lost more than 10,000soldiers fighting ISIS.

Now they're once again fightingfor their lives and homes.

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The Turkish invasion includesthe Free Syrian Army,

jihadists troops who fightalongside Turkey, a NATO member.

The Turkish invasion runsall the way across the nearly

300 mile northeast Syrian Turkish border

from the town of Derik in the east

all the way to Kobani in the west.

The White House said Turkeyhad committed to three things,

protect civilians, protectreligious minorities,

including Christians, and ensure

no humanitarian crisis takes place.

So far all three have been violated.

The fighting is forcingthousands to run for their lives.

This woman asked whydid the Americans flee?

Many have no where to go except the desert

and some humanitarianaid agencies are warning

up to 250,000 residentsmay flee the fighting.

Many civilians have been wounded.

This is Morris Amcee, bishopof the Orthodox Syriacs,

visiting the wounded fromthe Turkish invasion.

These are some of the otherswounded in the past three days

including this 10-year-old boy.

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In a rare move, Syriac churchbells in Northeast Syria

rang out for hours towarn local people to stay

in their shelters.

The church cried outfor the indiscriminate

Turkish bombing to stop.

President Trump was asked ifhe would support sanctions

against Turkey.

- Let's see what happens.

We are going to possibly dosomething very, very tough

with respect to sanctionsand other financial things.

- [Reporter] In the meantimethe fighting goes on.

These Christian fighters inthe Syrian Democratic Forces

visited this church, kissed the Bible,

and headed back to the frontlines to defend their homeland

against the Turkish invasion.

In a tweet, President Erdogansaid he would like to kiss

the foreheads of the heroesof the Mohammadan Army.