BLITZER: More on the breaking news as Turkey expands its military offensive against the Kurds, U.S. forces in Syria apparently came very close to being hit by Turkish artillery fire. Let's go to our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, what are your sources telling you.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, good evening. This happened earlier today in northern Syria near Kobani where U.S. special forces had been located for sometime. Apparently, according to first reports, the U.S. military is looking at a Turkish artillery round landed several hundred meters from an out post where U.S. special forces were located. When that round hit the U.S. forces immediately moved to a nearby headquarters where there were more forces for their protection. Now the Turks have issued a entertainment acknowledging that this happened and saying that they stopped firing once they realized U.S. forces were there. It remains potentially an open question whether the Turks did it deliberately or not to try and push U.S. forces out. For now senior U.S. military commanders believe the Turks did not deliberately target the U.S. but that perhaps this was a targeting mistake. A failure of precision targeting by the Turks. Because we know that the Turks had been informed by the Pentagon where all U.S. forces are located inside Syria. We also know now that as the fighting accelerates the U.S. military does have an emergency evacuation plan for all 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria to get them out of there very quickly if it did come to that -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Another big story today, Barbara. The Pentagon announcing a new troop deployment, U.S. forces heading to Saudi Arabia. What are you learning?</s>STARR: In the last several weeks including about 1800 troops today, there is now an additional 3,000 troops headed toward Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon says this is all part of the plan to deterred Iran from further aggression after that major attack on Saudi oil fields -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: All right, Barbara, we will watch all of this with you. Thank you. The breaking news continues next. The very latest on the wildfire burning out of control in Los Angeles threatening thousands of homes.
Turkey Expands Its Military Offensive Against The Kurds, U.S. Forces In Syria