hold the bodies of fighters.

Members of a Kurdish-led

militia that's been the primary ally for the U.S.

in its war against ISIS in Syria.

But a few weeks ago, President Trump

withdrew U.S. troops from the northeast,

and gave Turkey the green light

to attack the Kurds in Syria.

This is the result.

Since the U.S. departed abruptly,

the story for the Kurds has changed.

They had hoped their sacrifice would

be a path to self governance.

Instead, they face loss everywhere.

We're visiting an elementary school

in the city of Hasaka.

It's being used as a makeshift shelter.

Around 180,000 people are now

displaced by recent fighting.

We meet Hamza Mustafa.

His town was one of the first to come under Turkish fire.

We travel

to Qamishli, a city on the border with Turkey, and visit

hospitals that have received casualties

from the frontlines.

More than 200 civilians

have been killed and hundreds wounded.

This is 8-year-old Sara.

Her mother says she was outside her home

when a Turkish shell landed in the street.

Her 13-year-old brother, Mohamed,

was killed on the spot.

Sara's grandfather rushed her here,

where doctors had to amputate her leg.

Turkey defends

its incursion by saying these fighters are terrorists.

They are

in fact linked to a Kurdish guerrilla group

that has launched attacks inside Turkey.

But for the last five years, they've

been the foot soldiers in the war against ISIS.

They say they've lost around 11,000 fighters, men

and women, in that conflict.

Cekdar spent years fighting alongside the Americans.