A fragile truce between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed Islamist militias has crumbled due to Turkey's refusal to compromise.
The Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF ), a Kurdish-led militia allied with America, confirmed on Monday a short-lived truce with Islamist Turkish proxies in the country had collapsed due to Turkey ’s intransigence. The fighting between the SDF and the Syrian National Army (SNA) – an Islamist coalition that evolved out of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) into an informal Turkish proxy actor – are some of the last fighting remaining in the over decade-old Syrian Civil War.
The SDF has been an indispensable ally for the United States in eliminating the threat of the Islamic State and dismantling its “caliphate” in Raqqa, but has faced years of attacks from SNA-type militias and the Turkish armed forces itself, as Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan considers the Kurds a terrorist threat. The main fighting in the Syrian Civil War between the Bashar Assad regime in Damascus and various Syrian opposition groups ended in early December when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist terrorist organization that broke off of al-Qaeda, stormed multiple major cities and ultimately Damascus in a relatively bloodless struggle. Assad is believed to have fled the country on December 7, leaving it in the hands of the terrorists, though a claiming to be from Assad published on Monday bizarrely claimed that he never resigned from the presidency or decided to flee. The Turkish government launched what it called “Operation Dawn of Freedom,” a campaign to displace the Kurdish communities that live along the border with Turkey. The SDF is largely composed of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ), which Turkey claims is allied with, and often indistinguishable from, the Marxist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, but the U.S. often works with the YPG to address Islamic State threats. The SDF generally is also in charge of several prisons filled with Islamic State terrorists whose home countries refuse to take them back
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