the Kurds threatened again – Libération

If the Kurdish forces are not enemies of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group leading the assaults against the Syrian regime and its allies, they are enemies of the pro-Turkish factions participating in the fighting. They lost the town of Tall Rifaat on Sunday.

The yellow and red flag of the YPG, the People’s Protection Units, the main armed force of the Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria, has been flying since Monday, December 2 on Clock Square in Raqqa. He wasn’t there the day before. One sign among others that the Syrian Kurds are once again preparing for war. “There is no panic among the population but we feel real concern,” explains a researcher passing through the city. During the night from Sunday to Monday, hooded men took over the streets of Raqqa, stopping cars driven by young men. A few hours earlier, the Kurdish authorities had issued a general mobilization order.

The decision comes just five days after the offensive by armed groups against government forces and its Russian, Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah allies. Led by the radical Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Fri