Jilted Kurds ignore Western hand-wringing over Syria gas attack - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Amberin Zaman

Apr 12, 2018

TOPSHOT - A Syrian Kurdish fighter walks in the town of Rajo in the Afrin District on January 27, 2018.
Turkish troops and tanks entered northern Syria on January 21 in an offensive aimed at ousting the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers a terror group, from the Afrin region bordering Turkey. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) — A Kurdish People's Protection Units fighter walks in the town of Rajo in Afrin province, Syria, Jan. 27, 2018. — AFP/Getty Images

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