-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as the Syrian Kurdish-led militias are known. ... In reality, the fear is that the incursion will be used to crush the Syrian rebel forces and inflict as much pain as possible, both to eliminate the alleged threat posed by the Syrian Kurdish rebel forces and..…
But this alienated the Turkish ruling class, which sees an existential threat in any potential Kurdish independence and which also has grand imperialist plans for Northern Syrian and Iraq. ... They, along with Israel, even recently used Kurdish air bases to strike against..…
The no-fly zone imposed on Iraq ostensibly to protect Kurds did not parallel the demarcation between Arab and Kurdish-populated areas and was used as excuse to continue low-level bombing campaign of Iraq despite Baghdad government not breaching the airspace. ..…
The United States has had financial and quasi-military relationship with Kurdish people who Iraq, since the end of World War I. ..…
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