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Syria to consider granting Kurds greater autonomy
[Al Jazeera] Syria is considering granting its minority Kurdish population further autonomy for the first time, a government official has said.Walid Muallem, Syria's foreign minister, said his country is open to the idea of greater powers for the country's Kurds, who accounted for 15 percent of the country's population prior to the Syrian civil war. Once the military campaign of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's government against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group operating in Syria is over, discussions can begin, he said. "[Syrian Kurds] want a form of autonomy within the framework of the borders of the state," Muaellem said on Tuesday, according to SANA, the Syrian state news agency. "This is negotiable and can be the subject of dialogue." Posted by: Fred 2017-09-30 |
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