02/28/20 - Sen. Cotton tweeted "Russia and the Assad regime are to blame for the humanitarian disaster unfolding in northwest Syria. Our NATO ally Turkey is doing the right thing. Putin and Assad must honor their commitments and stop the massacre." View the tweet here.

10/24/19 - Sen. Cotton posted the following to Facebook: ""The president faced a real dilemma a few weekends ago. We only had a couple dozen troops on the northern border of Syria with Turkey. President Erdogan of Turkey said that he was going to conduct the operation that he had been broadcasting for 2-3 months. In fact, when he stood at the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September, he literally held up a map for the cameras forecasting this operation. And the president and his senior military leaders have said that President Erdogan called not to request permission or to consult with President Trump, but to tell him that this operation was now going to begin. And the president had to make the call of whether we kept a couple dozen troops in northern Syria between two warring parties, and he made the call not to do so."" View the Facebook post here.

10/12/18 - Sen. Cotton tweeted "I am pleased to see that Pastor Brunson will finally be free to return safely to American soil. His release is long overdue, and the Turkish government never should have detained him in the first place." View the tweet here.