[GPSCC-chat] who is fighting whom in Syria

[Jim Doyle]

The blog at
http://www.juancole.com/2016/08/americas-pentagons-militias.html

discusses the various fighting forces in the Syrian
conflict and Turkey's latest role. Here are two samples:

Remember, Turkish forces were supposed to be going in
to Syria to fight Daesh. But there they were, engaging in
combat at Amarna with the SDF, which is backed by the
US Department of Defense, which has 200 US special
operations forces embedded with it, and which had itself
taken heavy losses kicking Daesh out of Manbij.

US Syrian policy is in disarray despite the victories against
Daesh in Manbij and Jarabulus. US allies on the ground–
the Turks, the fundamentalist Syrian rebels, and the leftist,
pro-US Kurds and their Arab allies– are now actively
combatting one another, and a group backed by the
Pentagon has just killed a Turkish soldier, which is to
say, a NATO soldier.
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