Turkey claims to have captured key border town. Ras al-Ain marks biggest gain for Turkey since start of its offensive on Wednesday. Turkey says it has "neutralized" 459 Kurdish fighters.

His career includes nearly 3,000 at bats, 795 hits, 95 home runs, 397 runs batted in and a lifetime batting average of .268. He now adds member of Team Israel, Israeli citizen and 2020 Olympian to his list of accomplishments.

After two missiles strike Iranian tanker off Saudi Arabia's coast in Red Sea, damaging two storerooms, Supreme National Security Council says, "vicious behavior in international waterways will not go without a response."

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit leads Arab foreign ministers in denouncing Turkey's military operation in northeast Syria as an "invasion of an Arab state's land and an aggression on its sovereignty." Turkey dismisses the Arab League statement, saying it misrepresents its military operations.

While the Kurds' warnings that the Turkish military operation will give ISIS a shot in the arm might be somewhat exaggerated, there is something disturbing and disappointing about the US decision to leave the Kurds to their fate.