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Wounded Kurdish fighters hold portraits of comrades who were killed while fighting against Islamic State militants, during a demonstration against an anticipated Turkish incursion targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters, in front the United Nations building, in Qamishli, northeast Syria
KURDS feared ethnic cleansing today as Turkish forces began bombing northern Syria ahead of a much-anticipated ground invasion after US troops withdrew from the region earlier this week.
Commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), General Mazloum Abdi, warned that Turkish troops “are preparing to cross the border” with a major offensive expected in “a matter of days.”
Thousands of SDF forces have mobilised to Syria’s border with Turkey and Mr Abdi predicted a bloodbath in a “major battle” with Nato’s second-largest standing army.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
The spectre of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
