Analysis | All About the YPG, the Syrian Kurds Dividing Turkey and the US
Briefly

from Washington Post1 year ago
For the US, the group was a critical ally in the campaign to defeat Islamic State in Syria and remains an important force keeping the jihadists from rising up again.Turkey, a US ally within NATO, views it as a terrorist threat.The group is the People's Protection Units, or YPG, a militia in Syria made up mostly of fighters representing the minority Kurdish community.
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