Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 22
Build a safe zone in Syria for refugees
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Build a safe zone in Syria, paid for by the Gulf states, so refugees can stay in the region.”
- Promised
- , Campaign interviews and rallies
- Re-promised
- 8 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
A January 2017 executive order directed a plan for safe zones, but none was established. A 2019 U.S.-Turkey agreement created a limited buffer arrangement in northeast Syria after the U.S. troop withdrawal, not a refugee safe zone. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.