Thursday, 25 February 2016

The Syrian Kurds: Threatened by Turkey, America’s Untrustworthy Ally (Wayne Madsen, Strategic Culture Foundation)



Syria’s Kurds, who have been successful in occupying large tracts of territory originally seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), are now facing concerted military pressure from Turkey, which is backed by military forces from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Ironically, the Kurds are facing one NATO military force, that of Turkey, while being armed and trained by another NATO military, that of the United States.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/02/24/the-syrian-kurds-threatened-by-turkey-america-untrustworthy-ally.html

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