The mostly Kurdish militia in control of Syria's energy and farming heartland is facing extinction after losing its former stronghold in Aleppo to government forces, with sources telling The National that the US told the group not to resist the takeover.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has positioned itself as the defender of the Kurdish community since Syria's civil war, although Syria’s one million Kurds are not cohesive and some do not support the militia. But on Sunday, its last affiliated personnel left Aleppo on buses to SDF-held areas in eastern Syria.
A Kurdish source in contact with the SDF command said the group's leader Mazloum Abdi wa
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