| 11 May 2017 – In striking criticism from a NATO ally, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said he hoped the Trump administration would reverse its decision to arm a Syrian Kurdish militant group. |
| Mr. Erdogan’s prime minister said that the move would have “consequences” and that Mr. Erdogan would elaborate on those in his meeting with Mr. Trump next week at the White House. |
| In Syria, U.S.-backed militias claimed to have seized the town of Tabqa and the country’s largest dam from the Islamic State. |