Uh, these are Kurds, not “jihadist head choppers”, that’s the so-called “Free Syrian Army”. The Kurds really don’t have a beef with Assad, they’ve fought the SAA only when they were attacked, and I suspect that Iran probably had much to do with it.
next you‘ll be telling us that these guys are reformed marxist-lennists
and then you‘ll go into painstaking detail that this particular sub-group of tribesmen are not like the other groups which are really bad fellows. BUT your buddies are just great guys who have been misunderstand all these years.