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All About the YPG, the Syrian Kurds Dividing Turkey and the US
All About the YPG, the Syrian Kurds Dividing Turkey and the US,For the US, the group was a critical ally in the campaign to defeat Islamic State in Syria and remains an important force keeping the jihadists from rising up again. Turkey, a US ally within NATO, views it as a terrorist threat. The group is the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, a militia in Syria made up mostly of fighters representing the minority Kurdish community. Disagreements over the YPG have repeatedly stressed relations between Turkey and the US and threaten to provoke Turkey’s veto of

All About the YPG, the Syrian Kurds Dividing Turkey and the US

For the US, the group was a critical ally in the campaign to defeat Islamic State in Syria and remains an important force keeping the jihadists from rising up again. Turkey, a US ally within NATO, views it as a terrorist threat. The group is the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, a militia in Syria made up mostly of fighters representing the minority Kurdish community. Disagreements over the YPG have repeatedly stressed relations between Turkey and the US and threaten to provoke Turkey’s veto of