Isn't it obvious that this is what happened here? Surely Putin & Erdogan gave up al-Baghdadi in exchange for Trump abandoning northern Syria and the Kurds. A quid pro quo, I believe it is called.

Or are we to believe that it's a coincidence that al-Baghdadi was in the only house left standing after all of Putin and Assad's bombing of Idlib? Either they gave him up or simply declined to warn him this time.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) October 27, 2019