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Syria’s Kurdish-led administration calls on Biden for political recognition

SDF commander Mazlum Kobane told Al-Monitor last month he hopes the Biden administration will double the US troop presence in northeast Syria.

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Sinam Mohamad, the European representative of the de facto government running Kurdish-held northern Syria, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the autonomous administration's "mission" in Paris on May 23, 2016. — DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP via Getty Images

Northeast Syria’s Kurdish-led administration is calling on US President-elect Joe Biden to formally recognize its autonomous status within Syria.

Sinam Mohamad, the Washington envoy of the political body affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made the appeal during a think tank event alongside two former US officials earlier this month.

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