"One of the steps towards liberating Afrin is that we must put pressure on
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and ask them to withdraw from the soil of Syria completely ‐ and our enclaves in particular," Aldar Khalil, co-president of the executive body of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), told Rudaw.
"To evict them, we must try whatever means necessary, be they diplomatic efforts, military means, or through the media," he added.
The defeat of
TEV-DEM is the governing coalition in Rojava, the Kurdish-dominated self-autonomous enclave in northern Syria. The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main party within TEV-DEM, has been excluded from the Geneva and Astana processes, at the insistence of Ankara.
Preparations for the Syrian government’s Idlib operation are expected to begin soon after
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
’s forces, with Russian and Iranian backing, retook swathes of territory around the capital Damascus and areas in the country’s southwest.
Idlib province is controlled by the Nusra Front ‐ a former al-Qaeda affiliate ‐ and
Rojava authorities are yet to make an official statement on their involvement in such an operation, nor have they been invited to take part by the Assad government, Khalil said.
In recent remarks, Assad hinted his government will soon shift its focus from the south to the north to retake territories from several different gangs.
The
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA). Their stated aim is to clear the