1. In Search of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeastern Syria
- Author:
- Kenneth R. Rosen
- Publication Date:
- 10-2020
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Abstract:
- It is possible to conflate the development of an autonomous region of northern Iraq with one in northeastern Syria; as a colleague on this forum noted recently, the Kurds in northeastern Syria have suffered, and continue to suffer, greatly. But while they are allies who “by, with, and through” have helped to bring ISIS down to a regional crumb in an ever-growing platter of fractured groups, what the United States owes or can offer the Syrian Kurds is much different than what was secured in the early days of the 1990s in Iraq, in the midst Saddam's massacres of Kurds.
- Topic:
- Politics, Syrian War, Autonomy, and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Syria, Kurdistan, and Rojava