MESOP OPINION : Syrian Kurds, rebels find common enemy in ISIS / - TopicsExpress



          

MESOP OPINION : Syrian Kurds, rebels find common enemy in ISIS / By Wladimir van Wilgenburg AL MONITOR 28-3-2014 - ERBIL — The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have found a common enemy in the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the countryside of Aleppo. This new alignment represents a reversal of the situation in summer 2013, when the same rebel group fought with ISIS against the Kurds, accusing the main Kurdish party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), of abetting the Syrian regime. Today, however, accusations of collaborating with the regime are being directed at ISIS, and PYD leader Salih Muslim is accusing the regime of supporting jihadist attacks against the Kurds. Read more: mesop.de/?p=45038
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:32:55 +0000

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