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THE US will take back the arms it has given Kurdish separatists once they take the Syrian Isis stronghold of Raqqa, according to a Turkish Defence Ministry statement yesterday.
It said Defence Minister Fikri Isik had received the assurances in a letter from his US counterpart James Mattis.
It said Mr Mattis pledged to provide Ankara with a full list of arms supplied to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the Kurdish YPG — a sister organisation to Turkey’s banned PKK.
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)
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention