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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Kurds seek deal with government regardless of US pullout
2019-01-06
[PRESSTV] Syrian Kurdish leaders seek a Russian-mediated deal with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's government regardless of US plans to withdraw from their region, a bigwig has said.

The deal would mark perhaps the most important milestone because the two biggest chunks of Syria splintered by seven years of war would be rejoined, leaving only a corner in the northwest in the hands of bully boys.

Senior Kurdish official Badran Jia Kurd told Rooters the Kurdish-led administration that runs much of northern Syria presented a roadmap for an agreement with Assad during recent meetings in Russia.

"The final decision is to reach an agreement with Damascus, we will work in this direction regardless of the cost, even if the Americans object," Rooters quoted Jia Kurd as saying in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli.

The main aims of the roadmap, the report said, are to protect the Syrian border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
, to integrate the governing structures of northern Syria into the constitution, and to ensure a fair distribution of resources.

Last week, residents in Manbij asked the Syrian government to retake the northern city on the Ottoman Turkish border after a US pledge to withdraw troops from the Arab country.

Kurdish forces offer to surrender its zones in Syria for autonomy

[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Kurdish YPG leader Sipan Hemo offered last month to hand over control of Kurdish-held lands to the Syrian government in return for Kurdish autonomy, media said Saturday.

The Kurdish militia commander came to Russia’s Hmeimim base in western Syria days after the US president announced troop withdrawal from the country, Asharq al-Awsat reported.

Hemo then traveled to Damascus to tell Syrian authorities that YPG was ready to give up control of the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border, before going to Moscow on December 29.

In Russia, the Kurdish leader asked for assurances and suggested that Moscow bring out of mothballs a draft constitution it had proposed for Syria, which guaranteed the Kurdish right for self-determination.

The publication linked this trip to the surprise handover of the flashpoint Manbij city to the Syrian army on December 28, which was confirmed nearly simultaneously by the Syrian government and Kurdish forces.
Posted by:Fred

#5  IMO, if the Erdogan and his neo-Ottoman Empire wasn't so staunchly Sunni the Assad's, Alaiwites and schismatic Shia that they are, would have been far more neutral. As it is the Iranians may be "the only game in Town" for many of Syria's territorial ambitions. Personal survival, increased control of Lebanon, etc.
Posted by: magpie   2019-01-06 20:23  

#4  The Persian empire? Since when has President Assad stood against Iran, magpie?
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-06 15:13  

#3  Assad. and the Alaiwites he represents, have an incentive to ally with the Kurds against everybody else -- particularly the Ottoman Turks to the North and the Persian (Theocratic) Empire to the East. The " U.S. abandonment " might be necessary to bring the Kurds back to a reality where outsiders are not going to declare war on Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran to give them a homeland.
Posted by: magpie   2019-01-06 13:03  

#2  With the U.S. abandonment............

Did I missed the global adoption agency piece ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-06 12:39  

#1  With the U.S. abandonment this is the only chance they have. Make a deal with Assad and let his army secure the border with the reliable Russians supporting the Syrian Army against the Turks. Kurdish forces to serve by controlling their areas and supporting the Syrian Arabs against the Turks and Persians. Maybe the U.S. Can support them from Iraq via the Kurdish government there.
Posted by: Neville Glolutch8436   2019-01-06 12:36  

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