The United States government has announced that it is withdrawing American troops from Syria. They are currently stationed in the north-east, the Kurdish part of Syria. The Kurds, who are pro-West, fought bravely and lost many of their people fighting for the West, and were the ones who defeated ISIS, with American help. Without them the United States would have had to deploy huge numbers of troops to defeat ISIS.

With the withdrawal of the US troops, Turkey is preparing to invade the Kurdish area, like it did in Afrin in January-March 2018, killing hundreds and ethnically cleansing 300,000 Kurds, and bringing in settlers to occupy Kurdish homes and farms. Disgracefully, the West, including governments, most of the media and human rights groups, remained silent.

Having used them to defeat ISIS, the West is now going to leave the majority Kurdish population to the same fate. 1.6-2.5 million people are about to be betrayed again.

Remember that the Kurds fought for us.

[Photograph by Kurdish Struggle]