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US stresses Syria’s SDF remains ‘critical counterterrorism partner’
2023-07-13
[NPASyria] On Tuesday, a US State Department front man stressed the continuation of partnership with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a comment on the impacts of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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bid on situation in northeast Syria.

This came in a press briefing by Matthew Miller, the US State Department Spokesperson, in response to a question about "the new position in supporting the Kurdish fighters, the SDF."

Miller said, "The SDF have been a critical counterterrorism partner, and they remain a critical counterterrorism partner," but he refused to speak about special diplomatic talks in a reference to issues taking place between the NATO allies.

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has agreed to submit Sweden’s request to join NATO to the Ottoman Turkish parliament, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a tweet days ago.

He added, "They [SDF] fought bravely to liberate vast stretches of Syria from ISIS control...they will continue to be a partner of ours."

The State Department Spokesperson stressed the importance of the partnership between the US and the SDF in term of "preventing ISIS from realizing its aspirations for a reconstitution."

The US has warned successively Turkey of launching any military operation against northern Syria that will result in impeding the fight against ISIS and destabilized the region.

ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.

After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS fighters were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The SDF is composed in the main of ethnic minorities, primarily Kurdish but also Turkoman, Syriac, some Arab, and even lesser ethnicities. They control much of the northeastern region and the same borderlands with Turkey. Recognizing a fait accompli, Turkey's Erdogan (to curry favor with the USA while it plays a game against us elsewhere) has recognized the SDF. It remains to be seen how the battle within Syria will shake out. If it were to end realistically (which it won't), the Syria territory controlled by the SDF would unite with northern Iraq to create the Kurdistan state that Woodrow Wilson rejected more than a century ago.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2023-07-13 08:40  

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