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Senior U.S. officials visited Syria's eastern oil-rich Deir al Zor province on Sunday in an attempt to defuse an uprising by Arab tribes against Kurdish rule that is destabilising northeast Syria, U.S. officials, security sources, and residents said. An Arab tribal backlash against the rule of the Kurdish YPG militia has led to clashes, with over 150 killed and dozens injured. The militia forms the backbone of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and the uprising is the biggest threat to their rule since they finally drove Islamic State out of a swathe of the country's north and east in 2019. ....
Defense Ministers from Turkey and Syria met for the first time since the civil war erupted in the Arab state in 2011, the high point so far in a rapprochement that’s been months in the making. ....
Turkey's government blamed Kurdish militants on Monday for a blast that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, and said police had detained 22 suspects, including the person suspected to have planted the bomb. ....
Sweden's new government will distance itself from the Kurdish YPG militia as it tries to win Turkey's approval to join Nato, Sweden's foreign minister told Swedish Radio on Saturday. ....