SDF denies it reached a deal with ISIS that secures the evacuation of the extremist group from #Tabqa, reports ongoing "intensive clashes"
Analysis by @PaulIddon: Alleged deal for #ISIS’s withdrawal in Tabqa is not unprecedented in Syria
https://goo.gl/8gESGv
@ForeignPolicy Putin Has a New Secret Weapon in Syria: 1000 Chechen SF Troops.....
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/04/...yria-chechens/
Azor...heads up....
Senior PKK commander Rıza Altun says PKK to declare Iraqi Kurdistan as a war zone and target Turkish military outposts there
So here's fun. The U.S. has "no evidence" of an overlap between #YPG and #PKK, says the Pentagon.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcr...ce-from-bag/#…
While DoD can't detect evidence for a #YPG/#PKK overlap, here is one of their employees stood next to Sahin Cilo, a living embodiment.
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Here is the @CrisisGroup on the total integration of the #YPG within the #PKK's command structure
https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-e...-raqqa#…
NATO's Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism explaining that #PYD/#YPG *is* #PKK, not an "affiliate". https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/i...ft.pdf#…
The leadership, ideological, and personnel integration of #PKK and the #YPG/#PYD is detectable. https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/...ganda/#…
Azor..........
USG has to continue the charade of distancing the PKK from the YPG/PYD for legal reasons......
But analytically it's an ex-argument.
WHY because it is hard to distance yourself in the US MSM if you are "suddenly seen" as supporting a Communist Kurdish terrorist group....while supposedly fighting another terrorist group...
WILL not be good for Trump's popularity numbers if that gets out...
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