Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara has been handed a victory on a silver platter, with the US seemingly walking away from the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, his most formidable rival.
In just three days, a decade of SDF rule over Syria’s most resource-rich areas in the Euphrates River basin came crashing down as pro-government forces advanced into eastern Syria without meeting any significant resistance.
Washington prevented the group, which had resisted Mr Al Shara's drive to consolidate power under a unitary system, from using its more advanced weapons and did not respond to at least one call for military help, SDF sources said. On Sunday, a ceasefire deal brokered by Washington formalised the government's control over most of the territory formerly held by the SDF, which had demanded a federal system and a share of the country's o
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