Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said allying with Kurdish-led forces was 'a constitutional duty' and 'a national duty.'
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has visited the frontlines of his government's war with rebels and jihadis, offering his support to both his soldiers and the Kurdish-led forces backing them against a Turkish incursion in the northeast.
The U.S. ultimately began a withdrawal, leaving the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces to strike a deal with the Syrian government, an ally of Russia and Iran.
By 2015, the U.S. had begun to distance itself from a largely Islamist rebellion and began to focus on curbing the rise of ISIS. The Pentagon officially partnered with the YPG-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces, which also included Arabs and other communities, just as Russia intervened in the war on behalf of Assad, giving him a major boost against both ISIS and rebel groups.
With ISIS largely decimated and the jihadi-dominated opposition confined to Idlib and its outskirts, the Syrian government and Syrian Democratic Forces have become by far the largest stakeholders in the country. Turkey, however, has also opposed U.S. backing for the Syrian Democratic Forces and has waged at least two large-scale cross-border operations to uproot YPG control.
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