'Islamist' Agenda Unleashed: Turkey Joins with Jihadists to Conquer US Allies in Afrin
Turkish troops captured the Syrian city of Afrin near the Turkish border Sunday, marking the end of a two-month battle. The battle saw the Turkish army fighting alongside Islamist groups, some of them al Qaeda militias. Some reportedly threatened the Kurds to either convert or die.
"From a strategic point of view, the Kurds of Syria have been the West's most faithful and indeed most effective allies in the course of the fighting against the Islamic State in the past three to four years," said Middle East expert Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a fellow at the Middle East Forum. "And now there's a very strong sense among the Kurds that they have effectively been betrayed by their Western friends and partners."
