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2019-10-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Damascus Says Would Welcome Kurds Back into Fold
See also here and here.
[AnNahar] Damascus is ready to welcome Syria's Kurds back into the fold after Washington left them to face Ottoman Turkish military threats alone, a bigwig said in comments published Tuesday.

Ankara has threatened an offensive in Syria against Kurdish militias it considers forces of Evil and US forces on Monday pulled back from Ottoman Turkish border areas, opening the way for an invasion President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
has said could come at any moment.

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"We will defend all Syrian territory, and we will not accept any occupation of Syrian land," Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told the pro-government al-Watan newspaper.

The official said Kurdish groups have been "tossed aside" by Washington, after US President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
on Monday gave The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
a green light to press ahead with its planned military operation.

"The nation welcomes all its children and Damascus will solve all problems in Syria in a positive manner, away from violence," Mekdad said, encouraging Syria's Kurds to reconcile with the regime.

In the early part of the eight-year-old civil war in Syria, the Kurds consolidated control over the northeast and set up their own autonomous institutions.

When the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group swept across the region in 2014, they mounted a fierce defence of their heartland and became the US-led coalition's main military partner on the ground.

Damascus rejects Kurdish self-rule and wants central government institutions restored in Kurd-held areas.

The Kurds want protection from the long-threatened Ottoman Turkish offensive.

Ankara views Kurdish militias in Syria as a "terrorist" offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought a bloody insurgency inside Turkey for the past 35 years.

Turkey has already carried out two cross-border offensives into Syria, including one in 2018 that saw it and allied Syria rebels overrun the majority Kurdish Afrin enclave in the northwest.
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