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Jilted Kurds ignore Western hand-wringing over Syria gas attack
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/.../pyd-ypg-quiet-on-trump-assad-threats-douma.ht...
1 day ago - The Syrian Kurds have been notably silent on US President Donald Trump’s threat to punish Damascus over a suspected chemical attack on Douma, likely disillusioned and choosing to focus on condemning Turkey’s ongoing offensive in Afrin. ... A Kurdish People’s Protection Units
www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440
Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they have never obtained a permanent nation state.
Syrian Kurds: U.S. Allies, but Followers of Leader Jailed as Terrorist ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/.../syria-kurds-turkey-rojava-abdullah-ocalan.html
Mar 10, 2018 - Many Arabs would probably differ about their love of Mr. Ocalan, whose socialist, radically egalitarian philosophy of governance holds sway throughout the autonomous region, known as Rojava, that the Kurds have carved out in Syria, with the help of the American-led international coalition. Their uneasy ...
Friend or foe? Assad quietly aids Syrian Kurds against Turkey - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/...syria...kurds/friend-or-foe-assad-quietly-aids-syrian-kurds-...
Feb 10, 2018 - Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad.
New head of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party wants end to Syria incursion
https://www.reuters.com/...kurds-syria/new-head-of-turkeys-pro-kurdish-party-wants-...
Feb 14, 2018 - Turkey should accept the territorial gains of Syrian Kurdish forces at its southern border, end its military operation against them and instead resolve problems through dialogue, the new leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party said.
With nowhere else to turn, Syrian Kurds will have to embrace Assad’s ...
https://www.haaretz.com › Middle East News › Syria
Feb 20, 2018 - With the understanding that they don’t really have anyone to rely on in their struggle against the Turkish forces that invaded northern Syria’s Afrin district in January, the Syrian Kurds will have to do a back flip and embrace the Syrian military. The army forces and those Syrian militias that have been helping ...
How Syria’s Kurds are trying to create a democracy - Vox
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/12/17111138/syria-kurds-rojava-turkey
Mar 12, 2018 - Now in its seventh year, the Syrian war has entered a new phase. Turkey invaded northwest Syria in January, while Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly dropped chemical weapons on his own people outside the country’s capital, Damascus. ISIS is confined to a few remote pockets of territory in the ...
Syria’s Kurds: A Struggle Within a Struggle | Crisis Group
https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east.../syria/syria-s-kurds-struggle-within-struggle
As Syria’s conflict has expanded, the population in majority-Kurd areas has remained relatively insulated. Keeping a lower profile, it has been spared the brunt of regime attacks; over time, security forces withdrew to concentrate elsewhere. Kurdish groups stepped in to replace them: to stake out zones of ...
The Enemy of My Enemy: Russia and the Kurds Reshape the Syrian ...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph.../the-enemy-of-my-enemy-rus_b_9282978.htm...
Syria’s Kurds are on a roll. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a loose coalition consisting primarily of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), and an assortment of Sunni Arab, Turkmen, Yazidi and Assyrian ethnic militias are steadily expanding west of the Euphrates River. In the last several weeks the SDF has ...
Syria’s Kurds Experiment With Democracy Amid Civil War - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/kurds...syria-isis.../505037/
Rojava comprises the three Kurdish-majority cantons of northern Syria: Afrin in the west and Cizire and Kobani in the east, separated by a bloc of ISIS- (and now Turkish-) controlled territory—a fertile, oil-rich region, but landlocked and hamstrung by a near-total economic embargo. The Turkish and Iraqi ...
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