Strange Bedfellows
US Mideast relationships get stranger every day. The US has come to the defense or has given aid to three rather unlikely groups in the past few weeks.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which directly supports the YPG, on Washington’s list of proscribed terror groups “Moderates” fighting to overthrow Syrian president Assad. Those moderates just signed a non-agression pact with ISIS 70,000 Kurds Seek Refuge in TurkeyThe Guardian reports Kurds Flee into Turkey to Escape Isis Offensive
More than 70,000 Kurds fled from northern Syria into Turkey at the weekend and tens of thousands more are trying to cross the border as the terror group Islamic State (Isis) intensified its assault on a crucial Kurdish safe haven near the border.
Previous attacks have targeted Yazidis, Christians, Kurds and Shia Turkomans in Iraq, and Alawites, Shias and Christians in Syria, forcing most to flee. Those captured have been given the stark choice between converting to the jihadists’ hardline view of Sunni Islam or being killed.
This post was published at Global Economic Analysis on Monday, September 22, 2014.
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