Why are Syria's Kurds accusing the US of betrayal?
by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
Oct 08, 2019
4 minutes
AMMAN, Jordan - President Donald Trump's announcement late Sunday that he was pulling U.S. troops from northeastern Syria was met with fierce criticism in Washington and elsewhere. Here is why it is so controversial:
- Who are the Kurdish fighters?
They are one of the many groups involved in Syria's civil war, which began in 2011. When troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad retreated from Kurdish-majority areas in the north, a Kurdish party known as Democratic Union Party of Syria and its armed wing, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, rose to defend and administer those territories.
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