The Kurds Once Again Face American Abandonment
With the Trump administration poised to pull U.S. troops out of his country, the battle-tested group may have no choice but to negotiate its fate with Damascus.
Once again, a Kurdish ally of the United States has no idea where it stands with Washington. Since 2014, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has received and military from the United States, and proved instrumental in the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. But with the Trump administration its intention to pull U.S. troops out of Syriathe YPG suddenly faces an uncertain future. Hedging its bets, the YPG has twice a delegation to Damascus over the past month to start negotiations over a possible transition in northeast Syria. But the regime, on the verge of victory in
