The announced withdrawal of the US military from Syria will come as a hard blow for the Kurdish-led militia operating in the northeast of Syria, whose only sensible option now is to return the lands that they have seized back under control of the legitimate Syrian government, Syria’s Envoy to China Imad Moustapha told Sputnik.
“The decision to evacuate [US troops from Syria] would constitute a major blow to the separatist Kurdish movements in northeast Syria that have foolishly believed the US troops there would be protection and guarantee to replicate the Iraqi Kurdistan model in Syria. Now they have to face reality, either they come back to their senses, and re-integrate that part of Syria with the rest of the country… or they will become a prey to [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s most vile schemes against them and the rest of Syria,” the ambassador said.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which include the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), backed by Washington, still control parts of Syria’s northeast. Syrian authorities have denounced the group’s actions as illegal.