Iran-backed militias test new front with Washington’s Syrian Kurdish allies - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Dec 5, 2023

DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images — A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces stands guard as a US military vehicle leaves a US base in the northern Syrian town of Tal Tamr, on Oct. 20, 2019. — DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Mourners carry the coffins of two Kurdish women killed a day earlier in a reported Turkish drone strike, during their funeral in Amuda, a town in the Hasakah governorate in northeastern Syria, on June 21, 2023.

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In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) attend a joint military exercise with forces of the US-led "Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve" coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group in the countryside of the town of al-Malikiya (Derik in Kurdish) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 7, 2022.

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Troops from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) special operations.

Turkey's Erdogan eggs on Syria's Arab tribes against US-backed Kurds

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In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) gather near a US Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) during a joint military exercise with forces of the US-led "Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve" coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group in the countryside of the town of al-Malikiya (Derik in Kurdish) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on Sept. 7, 2022.

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Beatrice Farhat

In Beirut, reporting on regional news, culture, conflict