For friends and allies of the Kurdish people, their worst fears are being manifested. Kurdish, Christian, and Yazidi communities are at grave risk in Syria. The trauma of 2014 resonates as many Yazidi people fear the genocide could be repeated. This morning the iconic city of Kobani – symbolising the extraordinary sacrifice of Kurdish troops against ISIS – is under siege surrounded by Al Sharara’s Islamist extremist troops, poised to face genocide on the scale of a new Srebrenica.
The United States must defend the religious freedom of Syria’s most vulnerable and hold Ahmed Al Sharaa – and Turkey – fully accountable to safeguard the region if a new genocide is to be averted.
Despite a US-sponsored ceasefire agreement between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (securing Northeast Syria home to numerous minorities) and the Transitional Syrian Government, plus the recent US retaliatory strike in Northeast Syria killing al Qaeda-affiliated leader Bial Hasar al Jasim, it seems the US policy has been subjugated by Turkish policies.