Without protection for the Kurds and other ethnic minorities, Syria will never be stable.
Tras arremeter contra Europa en un largo discurso en Davos, el presidente dijo que había logrado un acuerdo sobre el futuro del territorio ártico.
After assailing Europe in a long speech at Davos, the president said he had won an agreement on the future of the Arctic territory.
The U.S. military said it has transferred 150 and could eventually move as many as 7,000 Islamic State fighters out of prisons in Syria’s northeast to Iraq, as the Syrian government wrestles for control of the region from Kurdish-led forces.
A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian government.
The U.S. envoy to Syria said Washington was confident the Syrian government could take over the country’s fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.
New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government.
The new deal also calls for a cease-fire. Government forces have taken strategic assets from the militia in recent days, weakening the force.
Government troops drew closer to Raqqa, the largest city overseen by the Kurds, raising U.S. concerns about the renewal of a wider conflict in the region.
The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year.
The 18-year-old, radicalized online, was planning a New Year’s Eve attack in a Charlotte suburb, officials said.
For many middle- and working-class New Yorkers, it’s an even more distant possibility than it used to be.