At this point, unfortunately, the only person that can stop the carnage is Putin and he likely won't because the Kurds allied with us.

According to AlJazeera, Syrian government forces along with Russians are moving north to stop the Turks from going further south.

They are going to fight off the Turks but it will only be because of the oil fields in that area. He has no love for the Kurds.

You sure don’t see any of this on the evening news.

He has allowed American troops. He has allowed ISIS. He has allowed the Kurdish fighters.

It's a weird situation, but his focus has been on the western part of the country. I think it is because Syria was created by the French and British in 1918. The eastern part is the Kurds historical homeland too. The Kurds have never had a country, so I assume Eastern Syria was just sort of an unofficial "Kurdistan"....They don't bother us and we don't bother them type of situation.

I kinda think it's a climate thing too. Western Syria has a favorable climate where more people prefer to live and Eastern Syria is a hot desert. My grandmother's ship manifest says she came from Beirut, Syria. (Not Lebanon..) The Armenian concentration camps were all in what is now Eastern Syria.