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Monday, December 18, 2017
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Ramping up rhetoric, Assad calls US-backed Kurdish fighters ‘traitors’
Syrian President Bashar Assad calls US-backed Kurdish fighters “traitors,” ramping up the rhetoric against the forces controlling more than a quarter of the country.
“When we talk about those referred to as ‘the Kurds,’ they are in fact not just Kurds. All those who work for a foreign country, mainly those under American command… are traitors,” he says.
“This is how we see these groups working for the Americans,” he said.
Assad had criticized the semi-autonomous Kurds in the past, but his latest remarks, released by the presidency on social media, were more virulent than usual.
— AFP
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