Though Syrian officials have made no indication that this is the case, top Iranian adviser Ali Akbar Velayati says that Syrian troops will soon be marching on the city of Raqqa to recover it from the Kurdish YPG.
Raqqa was the long-time capital city of ISIS, but captured by US-backed Kurdish forces after over a year of operations in the area. Kurdish officials have indicated that they intend to keep control of the Arab city for now, and that it will be part of “federalized” Syria.
Velayati accused the US of trying to “divide” Syria by keeping their troops east of the Euphrates River. The US has helped the Kurds take broad swathes of Syrian landfrom ISIS outside of the Kurdish territory.
Syria and the Kurds probably are eventually looking at a fight over post-ISIS War borders, just as Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan just had. It’s unlikely, however, that it will be all that soon, as Syria likely will continue to attack ISIS and other Islamist groups as long as they can, and forestall what could be an ugly fight against the Kurds until the last minute.
Since Iraq regained control over their northern territories, particularly the border to Syria, Which will be guarded by nationalised, Iran – trained Shia militias (PMU) US and their local Turdish clients in Syria are now stuck and surrounded in one great cauldron of sorts.
They are gobbling up a many oil wells and resources they possibly can but have no viable way to deliver the loot to the markets (israel) the Kurds are way out of their comfort zone and its just a matter of time, weeks really, before SAA that have ordered them to return up to the Kurdish areas, will forcibly convince them to. US ‘s presence is unsustainable and something’s got to give here and that will be the US.
This is avoiding key issue. Why are we supporting secessionism, which as a rule results in long term strife, setback for the economy of the region? This support costs a great deal of money, for a long time to come. Instead of having a region of stable countries, we will have state of permanent tension – and loss of trade to everyone including US.. with every such mess the region as well as the globe — all get poorer. And the pool of young, uneducated, unemployed and unemployable grows. And then we weaponize the poverty, thinking we are so clever! Enjoying crisis sfter crisis — and tugging on the strings of chaos hoping something valuable shakes out. This was the logic of nomads — with no value for the earth they trotted upon, other then the short term gains — it mattered none if the esrth gets scorched after they leave. This is unfortunatelly how ee run out relationships with the world.