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Three US Allies Now Fighting Against Each Other in Northern Syria

• antiwar.com by Jason Ditz

With America's own war in Syria vague in both scope and end-game, they've been eager to amass allies that seem potentially useful toward some talking point or other. In having done so, however, they've picked up a motley crew of "US-backed" groups that have wildly different goals.

That's been a recurring problem, but became dramatically moreso this past week, when US-backed Turkey invaded northern Syria, and brought with it a US-backed rebel bloc that includes part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham. Within 24-hours, both quickly got into a fight with the Kurdish YPG, who is also US-backed, putting three US allies in direct conflict.


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