In the wake of a US raid that took the life of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend, the Pentagon-backed Syrian Kurds are hoping to convince the Donald Trump administration to take a harder line against the weekslong Turkish incursion into Syria.
As the Pentagon-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) touted more US raids in northern Syria, including a Monday strike that US officials said left IS spokesman Abu Hasan al-Muhajir dead near Jarablus, the Kurdish-led group began to mount a public relations offensive demanding information about what Turkey knew about Baghdadi’s whereabouts.