A Kurdish fighter from the People's Protection Units (YPG) fires his weapon from a house in Raqqa, Syria June 21, 2017. © Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
Al-Monitor: US faces uphill battle recouping arms from Syrian Kurds
The Donald Trump administration plans to ask Kurdish fighters in Syria to return US weapons loaned for the fight against the Islamic State (IS), but the administration is not ending all support despite growing pressure from NATO ally Turkey.
The message from White House and Pentagon officials on Monday appeared to walk back assertions from Turkey’s top diplomat that Trump had promised to cease support to Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Turkey considers the group’s Kurdish faction, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), to be a terrorist group.
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WNU Editor: Good luck on the Americans getting their weapons back.
