Assad sets sights on Kurdish areas, risking new Syria conflict

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Assad sets sights on Kurdish areas, risking new Syria conflict
Yahoo News, Oct 31, 2017, Reuters

BEIRUT (Reuters) - With Islamic State near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a new confrontation that could draw the United States in more deeply and complicate Russian diplomacy.

President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian allies appear to have been emboldened by events in Iraq, where Kurdish authorities have suffered a major blow since regional states mobilised against their independence referendum, analysts say.


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