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Kurdish autonomous regions in Iraq and Syria are increasingly coming under threat by regional powers, namely Iran and Turkey. They are also increasingly becoming vulnerable to internal challenges posed by the central governments in Baghdad and Damascus.
translator: this is as far as we can go. it s very dangerous. he s a field commander in a force made up predominantly by ethnic kurds, a key ally in the fight against isis. they don t look like they re ready to surrender. he s saying the ones who are in here, they re prepared to die. the united states and the kurds had a joint war plan, a partnership. the u.s. military dropped bombs from above. while these kurdish fighters did the grunt work. they backed isis into this final holdout, a squalid section no bigger that a few football fields. there are battles raging inside. this is the last stage. either they surrender or we kill them. little by little, isis lost its grip. and the kurds closed in.
agencies and is now free back in the u.s. warren christopher clark is back in the u.s., too, facing charges of providing material support to isis. if convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and a quarter million-dollar fine. zayed abdul hamid remains in kurdish custody. trinidad has no plans to repatriate him any time soon. and hoda and her son have been moved to another detention camp in northern syria for their own safety as they await their fate. the islamic state was defeated, but president trump s withdrawal of u.s. forces from northern syria has left their kurdish allies abandoned and betrayed. the kurds are now fighting for their survival, less able to guard isis prisoners. and in the chaos, there have been prison breaks and hundreds of isis members are once again
they have lost thousands. what kind of toll did they inflict on isis? it s in the tens of thousands of isis killed. for the allies, kobani was a turning point. every morning i d come in and i d be looking at a map in my briefing. i could see where isis colors had been taking over that map, suddenly it s moving the other direction. and that was so important, because it really kind of broke the psychology. isis tried very hard to take some place and been beaten. i think after that we knew what it took to beat them. four years later, it was all over. for the kurds it was a time to celebrate. i wanted to go back to kobani, back to where it all began, to catch up with an old friend. hello. how are you? i m delighted.