Last month’s fighting in the Syrian town of Hasakeh made one thing very clear, that ISIS just being a remnant force is starting to require a rethink, as they are capable of a protracted, week-long offensive.
The Kurdish SDF, with US support, managed to hold them off, but there are concerns that ISIS may be once again on the rise in the area, and the SDF are warning they don’t think they’re strong enough to handle them.
This has Syrian Kurdish groups on the call for renewed international support, saying that they are already weakened by fighting with Turkey, and by Syria’s economic struggles, and that they aren’t in a position to fight a whole new campaign against ISIS.
Constant tension with Turkey may make that support hard to come by. The US may have interest in supporting the Kurds, but a new military buildup in Syria probably won’t be an easy sell.
The USA should stop ignore turkish support for Al qaida and ISIL. The turkish islamist regime bombs kurds almost everyday. Turkeys NATO membership should not mean they are above the law.
Rejoin the Syrian Arab Republican and share your oil wealth with them in exchange for military support. That is how nation states work. That has been on the table but the U.S. blocks it because we want Syria to remain weak and divided.