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General Mazloum Abdi, commander of Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), warned country may be headed into another round of a “bloody civil war” if Turkey & Islamist continue carrying out attacks inside country. Both sponsors inside Syria, such as Syrian Nat Army (SNA) comprising mercenaries, criminal bands, been attacking Kurds in northern & eastern Syria. Both also been joined by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), main opp group led the offensive against Assad in attacks against Kurds. Kurds are an ethnic group spread across Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. Most of the Kurds Sunni. R Muslims also practice Christianity & Zoroastrianism among other religions. In Syria, Kurds run a regional govt northeast named Syria called Autonomous Admin North & East Syria (AANES). Kurds are mainly US ally in the region in the war against Islamic State (Isis), Turkey considers them enemies. Turkey equates SDF w/Kurdish group PKK, blamed insurgency inside Turkey considers a terrorist group. Turkey has for years attacked Syrian Kurds, sought to limit size of AANES farther from Turkish border.

Kurdish commander warns of ‘bloody civil war’
As Turkish military and Syrian militias have joined hands against Kurds, General Abdi said the SDF is under “constant attack”. “We are still under constant attack from the Turkish military and the Turkish-supported opposition which is called SNA,” said Mazloum in an interview with Fox News. Mazloum said that Turkey is carrying out up to 81 drone attacks a day amid “intensive” artillery bombardment. He went on to say that such an offensive has “paralysed our counterterror operation” IIf the new Syrian regime is not inclusive and if violence continues as it is, then Syria is headed into another “bloody civil war”, warned Mazloum.

“So any new govt in Syria needs representative, needs inclusive contain include all different parties of Syria. So if not that takes us to a bloody civil war in the country and that will put us in huge stage of escalatory path that no one can predict the fate of that,” said Mazloum. Fears of Islamic State’s resurgence. He warned spiralling violence in Syria could be fertile grounds for the resurgence of Islamic State. In safeguarding Kurdish territory conducting regular op against Isis, SDF is also responsible of guarding several prison complexes up to 45,000 Isis terrorists and their family members are put. Amid ongoing chaos in Syria. Turkey has opened a front against Kurds, fears attempts at freeing these prisoners could be made, which would be catastrophic for the region if it is successful.

Mazloum said half of his fighters guarding ISIS camps withdraw in recent days. “All the prisons still are under our control. However, prisons & camps are in a critical situation b'cos guarding them are leaving having to protect their families eg: like Raqqa ISIS prison, contains about 1,000 ISIS ex-fighters, number of guards diminished by half putting them in a fragile position.” he added, “We expect those Islamists, different factions to unite, to fight with ISIS will bring back tougher extremists, organisations back to country." Mazloum further said that even though a ceasefire was reached with Turkey-backed groups earlier this week with US mediation, the attacks continued both from Turkey & militias.

Over the weekend, the Turkey-SNA combine attacked Kurds in Manjib in eastern Syria. The attack in Manjib was followed by SNA’s offensive against the SDF in Kobani. Then, the HTS on Tuesday captured the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor from the Kurds, who had captured the city from Assad’s regime forces last week.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/top-kurd...g_rewarded

Syrian minister rejects Kurdish-led SDF’s proposal for own military bloc. Integrating Syria’s myriad armed groups into unified command structure is a priority of new govt. Syria’s new defence minister said.

It would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces is saying.

Speaking to Reuters news agency in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said on Sunday that Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was procrastinating in its handling of the complex issue.

The SDF, which has carved out a semi-autonomous zone through 14 years of war, has been in talks with the new admin in Damascus led by former rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad on December 8.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/19...itary-bloc