Leaders in Syrian Kurdistan asked the United States this week to provide protective troops and become more involved in keeping the peace as they face an ongoing campaign by Turkish proxy forces to eradicate them.
One senior leader of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), which represents Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), suggested American troops, with French help, could “secure the entire border” between Turkey and Syria.
The top commander of the U.S.-allied, Kurdish-run Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Gen. Mazloum Abdi, also said in an interview on Thursday that American forces could be the “key factor of stabilization” in northern Syria.
Syria endured a decade-long period of civil war under ousted dictator Bashar Assad that began in 2011 and, by late 2024,
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