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Radio War Nerd EP 358 — Syria War Update, feat. Joshua Landis

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The YPG Threat in Afrin Syria

The YPG threat or well what I would guess is a threat officially it was a notification that they might no longer be able to guard Islamic State prisoners if that's really a threat like okay if you drive us out we're gonna let these very scary people go. The thing is the United States could allow for this border zone and keep the prisons further inland which Turkey is probably counting on. This way the YPG would lose some of its most important territories and population concentrations, he says.

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