Once a US ally against ISIS, big power politics now poised to betray them

When US forces first noticed the People’s Protection Units in the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015 they were barely hanging on. They had been placed under siege in Kobani in northern Syria.

SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC Forces celebrate the first anniversary of Raqqa province’s liberation from ISIS, in Raqqa, Syria, in October 2018.

SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC Forces celebrate the first anniversary of Raqqa province’s liberation from ISIS, in Raqqa, Syria, in October 2018.

(photo credit: ABOUD HAMAM / REUTERS)

BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019 22:06