{"id":47100,"date":"2019-10-29T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/29\/bipartisan-house-oks-bill-hitting-turkey-for-syria-incursion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:18:57","slug":"bipartisan-house-oks-bill-hitting-turkey-for-syria-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/10\/29\/bipartisan-house-oks-bill-hitting-turkey-for-syria-incursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan House OKs bill hitting Turkey for Syria incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan bill punishing Turkey for its invasion of northern Syria and illustrating both parties\u2019 dismay with President Donald Trump\u2019s retreat from the region sailed easily through the House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill marks both parties\u2019 latest show of disapproval for Trump\u2019s decision this month to abandon the United States\u2019 longtime Kurdish allies against Islamic State fighters by pulling American forces away from northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure also underscores lawmakers\u2019 wariness of the cease-fire that Vice President Mike Pence struck with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and of the subsequent agreement between Turkey and Russia splitting control of the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Congress\u2019 acrimonious partisan divisions over Democrats\u2019 impeachment investigation of Trump, lawmakers approved the Syria sanctions by a lopsided 403-16. Republicans supported the measure 176-15, while the only voting Democrat to oppose the measure was Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/10\/23\/trump-lifts-turkey-sanctions-declares-victory-for-american-troops-after-new-ceasefire-agreement-in-syria\/\" target=_blank>Trump has declared victory in the region<\/a>, saying the U.S. has little at stake in its conflicts. Critics say his moves have bolstered Turkish, Iranian and Russian sway in the area, jeopardized efforts to contain the Islamic State group and reduced U.S. leverage there.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/22\/us-military-struggles-to-find-a-strategy-amid-sudden-policy-changes-in-centcom-region\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1177221337.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US military struggles to find a strategy amid sudden policy changes in CENTCOM region<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The future of the five-year fight against Islamic State militants is unclear, along with the entire strategy underpinning the U.S. troop presence in the U.S. Central Command region.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said Trump\u2019s moves follow a pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe president of the United States stokes a crisis and then steps in with some sort of half-measure in a failed attempt to look like some kind of great deal is happening,\u201d Engel said. Instead, he said, the result has been \u201ca catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the committee\u2019s top Republican, cast the measure as a way to give Trump \u201cadditional congressional support\u201d to reimpose sanctions on Turkey if needed. But he warned that the U.S. \u201ccannot allow Turkey\u2019s invasion to hinder in any way\u201d continued U.S. efforts to combat the Islamic State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can think of nothing more dangerous that withdrawing all of our troops from Syria,\u201d McCaul added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has referred repeatedly to pulling all American troops out of Syria. The Pentagon has acknowledged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/27\/russia-calls-us-move-to-protect-syrian-oil-banditry\/\" target=_blank>it is keeping U.S. forces in eastern Syria<\/a> to keep oil from falling into the hands of the Islamic State.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/25\/us-to-send-mechanized-forces-to-secure-syrian-oil-fields\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/155-ABCT-Kuwait.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US to send \u2018mechanized forces\u2019 to secure Syrian oil fields<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cWe are reinforcing that position, it will include some mechanized forces,&quot; Defense Secretary Mark Esper said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure would bar most U.S. weapons sales to Turkey and slap sanctions on foreigners attempting to send the Turks military equipment. It would also block high-ranking Turkish officials from their assets in the U.S. and restrict their travel here. Trump would be given a waiver to not impose the penalties if he certifies that doing so would let him address a humanitarian need and help \u201cnational security interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sanctions are to start within weeks of passage and are supposed to stay in effect until Turkey withdraws forces that have been attacking the Kurds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday\u2019s vote came as Congress is riven along partisan lines over a Democratic investigation into whether Trump should be impeached because of efforts he made to force Ukraine to investigate his Democratic political opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also followed Trump\u2019s announcement just two days ago of perhaps his highest-profile foreign policy achievement: a raid by U.S. special operations forces that led to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/28\/american-commando-raid-to-kill-al-baghdadi-was-launched-from-al-asad-airbase-rehearsals-conducted-in-erbil\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the death Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/a>, the long-sought leader of the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, the House voted 354-60 to approve a nonbinding measure assailing Trump\u2019s troop pullback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Measures have been introduced in the Senate similar to the House legislation imposing sanctions and the separate one criticizing the troop withdrawal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hasn\u2019t brought them to a vote yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/22\/russia-turkey-seal-power-in-northeast-syria-with-accord-after-american-troops-withdraw\/\" target=_blank>Russia and Turkey reached an agreement<\/a> last week dividing control of northeast Syria and halting, at least for now, the Turkish invasion of the area. Ankara, which sees Syrian Kurds as a security threat, sought to push Kurdish forces away from its border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia said Tuesday that tens of thousands of Syrian Kurdish fighters have completed their withdrawal from the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan bill punishing Turkey for its invasion of northern Syria and illustrating both parties\u2019 dismay with President Donald Trump\u2019s retreat from the region sailed easily through the House on 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