Syria’s Kurds badly lacking true friends
Nikola Mikovic
January 03, 2021 22:14
A Turkish-backed Syrian fighter mans a security checkpoint before an approaching motorcycle, along a road in the countryside outside Ain Issa in Syria s northern Raqqa province. (AFP/File)
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Russia and Turkey hold in their hands the fate of the strategically important northern Syrian town of Ain Issa, nominally controlled by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) but overseen by the Russians. Faced with a possible attack by Turkish-backed forces in the form of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) because of an important highway nearby, the Kurds have sought help from the Russians. Instead, Moscow wants the Kurds to hand over the town to Bashar Assad’s Syrian army. The inevitable result will be that the Kurds are set to be betrayed by foreign parties in the Syrian civil war for the second time in two years. As tragic as that is, however, what is more significant