Tulsi Gabbard invites Kurdish leader to State of the Union in jab at Trump’s Syria pullout

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has invited a Syrian Kurdish leader to be her guest at the State of the Union address on Tuesday in a jab at President Donald Trump’s “hasty” plan to withdrawal US troops from Syria.

Ilham Ahmed – the co-president of the Syrian Democratic Council, which is the political arm of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces – will sit in the audience as Trump addresses Congress and the nation.

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