Syria is deploying pro-regime forces to help Kurdish militia fend off Turkey’s incursion into Syrian territory, the latest twist in a confounding civil war that has former enemies teaming up against a common foe.
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are backing Kurdish YPG militia in the border town of Afrin, where Turkey has carried out a month-long air and ground assault to clear the region of Kurdish fighters.
Syrian state media reported Monday that government troops would move into Afrin “within hours,” the result of an apparent agreement between Assad and the Kurdish YPG units in the area. The deployment will “support our people against the Turkish regime’s aggression,” the Syrian government said, according to a brief report from the official SANA news agency.
Last month, Turkey launched a military incursion into Afrin, a small Kurdish-dominated enclave on the Syrian side of the Turkey-Syria border. Turkey considers the Kurdish YPG militia to be an arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which both Washington and Ankara have designated as a terrorist organization.
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