Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

US and Syria's Kurds: Love on the rocks?

AMBERIN ZAMAN for Al-Monitor PKK violence is complicating US relations with Syria’s Kurds just as Turkey steps up its cooperation against the Islamic State.

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