The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia aims to expand its force by about two-thirds to more than 100,000 fighters this year, it told Reuters, a plan that would strengthen autonomous Kurdish enclaves that are of deep concern to neighboring Turkey. - Reuters
Caliphate’s last days: Senior intelligence sources in Iraq say Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, has been in neighboring Syria since March 11, writes Sami Moubayed. Al-Baghdadi has been living in Mosul since 2014 but left to escape the Iraqi Army’s current offensive and is now about to move to al-Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS, as his troops prepare for a caliphate-defining fight against a coalition of US troops, Kurdish militias and the Syrian Army. Hal Brands writes: This victory, however, will create new dilemmas for the Trump administration. There will be thorny questions about what sort of political endgame to pursue in Syria and whether to leave a residual U.S. military presence in Iraq….Nor will it solve the broader problem of radicalization and extremism in the Muslim world. And so a key question for Trump is what politico-military strategy the administration should pursue in an ongoing struggle against violent jihadist organizations. – Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Russia was setting up a military base in northwestern Syria under a bilateral agreement and will help train its fighters - a step that would anger Turkey as it tries to block Kurdish gains near its borders. - Reuters
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia aims to expand its force by about two-thirds to more than 100,000 fighters this year, it told Reuters, a plan that would strengthen autonomous Kurdish enclaves that are of deep concern to neighboring Turkey. - Reuters
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