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Americans, Russians compete for Kurdish support in northeast Syrian border area
Coalition patrol outside Hemze Beg village, northeast Syria, February 17, 2021 (Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24).
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – An area currently under the control of US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeasternmost parts of Syria has become a point of serious contention between Russian and American troops.
Dêrika Hemko (also known as Derik and in Arabic al-Malikiyah) is a district in Hasakah province that includes the unofficial Fishkhabor border crossing with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Its district center is Derik city.
Compounding local fears of escalation, local media reports in January indicated that Turkey which backs Syrian Islamist groups accused committing of war crimes against minority groups, including Kurds might attack Derik and its surrounding area. Ankara’s past assaults on Kurdish-held territories in northern Syria have displaced hundreds of thou