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Bookmark or Share- Who are the Syrian Democratic Forces? - Al JazeeraThe SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, was founded in 2015, nearly four years after an armed rebellion erupted against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Kurdish group is fighting ...
- Escalating violence in Syria raises fear of ‘large-scale war’ - UN NewsAfter over a decade of brutal fighting, the Commission Chair, Paulo Pinheiro, said that deadly dynamics are causing new waves of hostilities. “The recent direct fighting in northeast Syria around Deir-ez-Zor between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the one hand and Arab tribes, Government forces and Iran-backed militia on the other, evokes the deeply entrenched grievances ...
- Who are the Syrian Democratic Forces? - The EconomistThe SDF sprung up across the border, a product of the Syrian civil war. In 2011, as forces supporting Mr Assad fired on protestors, Kurds formed militias. These coalesced into the so-called People ...
- Syrian Democratic Forces - WikipediaThe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) [a] is a Kurdish-led [12] [104] [105] coalition formed by ethnic militias and rebel groups, and serves as the official military wing of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). [106] [107] [108] The SDF is allied to and supplied by the United States–led CJTF–OIR international alliance ...
- US-backed Syrian force that defeated IS 5 years ago warns group still ...BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S.-backed force that defeated the Islamic State group in Syria five years ago warned Saturday that the extremists still pose grave dangers throughout the world and called on the international community to find solutions for thousands of fighters still held in its jails.. The statement by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to mark the fifth anniversary since IS lost ...
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