Beatles by the men they captured while fighting for ISIS, according to Washington Post. Kurdish forces were holding Kotey and Elsheikh Syria, and the prisoners were transferred to U.S authorities under the impending threat of Turkish invasion.. ..…
(Some Syrian Arabs resented the YPG’s growing presence in areas that were not historically Kurdish and accused the group in summer 2015 of forcibly displacing Arab villagers.) . Although Washington sought to assuage Ankara, it made promises that proved hard to keep. ..…
President Trump withdraws Washington’s 'costly' support from its long-time Kurdish allies. . ..…
Ankara strongly opposed Washington's support for Kurdish forces in Syria citing their links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has fought a deadly insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984. . ... Weakened by Washington's decision to withdraw most of its..…
The reality is that Washington cannot back Kurdish ambitions for homeland without antagonizing almost all other factions in the region and further destabilizing Iraq, Syria, and NATO ally Turkey. ... Turkish leaders regard Kurdish enclaves in both Syria and Iraq serious threat..…
Washington's awkward diplomatic tightrope act of backing Kurdish forces against jihadi adversaries while accepting Turkey's coercive actions against Kurds now seems to be coming to end, as Trump administration tilts more sharply toward Ankara's position.. ..…