The Kurdish-dominated force in Syria warned Thursday that a US Syria troop pullout could allow the ISIL Takfiri group to “rebuild”. “It will have a negative impact on the counterterrorism campaign,” the Syrian Democratic Forces, the US-led coalition’s main military partner in the battle against IS, said in a statement. ...
The three self-appointed guarantors of the Syrian peace process – Russia, Turkey and Iran – have spurned efforts by the UN to change the composition of a committee due to write a new constitution for the country. The agreement on the committee’s formation was formally reached by the three countries ...