from AntiWar
With the fighting continue to rage and north and northeast Syria between central government forces and the nation’s Kurdish minority, the US government appears to have decided that they are backing the former, and that US military support for the Syrian Kurds is over.
US envoy Tom Barrack declared the Kurds to have a “great opportunity” to be taken over by the Islamist central government of Syria, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). He assured that the Kurds would definitely be offered “equal rights” under the law in this scenario.
In many ways, Barrack’s comments were less about why they are no longer backing the Kurds than why they did in the past, saying at one point in the fight against ISIS, the US didn’t consider the Assad government a “viable partner” so they backed the Kurds instead. Now, with the US seeing the HTS as aligned with their interest, that’s no longer the case, so they’ll be backing the HTS instead...
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