Analysis: US pullout is others' gain in Syria
by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
Oct 24, 2019
3 minutes
IRBIL, Iraq - In 2014, Kurdish-led forces, aided by U.S. air power, pushed back Islamic State militants who invaded the Syrian city of Kobani.
The city of Raqqah - the headquarters of the extremists' self-declared caliphate in Syria - fell to the same Kurdish-led militiamen in 2017.
Those triumphs, which cost thousands of Kurdish lives, were celebrated as gallant victories of the U.S.-Kurdish alliance. Now they seem part of a distant past.
Photographs circulating on social media Wednesday showed Russian troops patrolling the streets of Kobani and convoys of Syrian troops entering
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