The global media — to their credit - are focusing on the brutality of the US-backed Raqqa campaign, though they're avoiding any serious reporting about how and why the Kurds are ethnically cleansing Arabs from Raqqa.
The Race for Raqqa is over, and the US-backed "Syrian Democratic Forces", the majority of which are comprised of the Kurdish YPG militia, are on the verge of capturing Daesh's self-declared "capital". The operation is proceeding at a lightning pace after the Pentagon and its proxies carefully squeezed the terrorists for months, but
it must also be said that the rapid battlefield "successes" are also due in part to the Kurds cutting a deal with Daesh. This isn't a fringe conspiracy theory either, but a documented fact
reported by Sergey Surovikin, the commander of Russia's forces in Syria, who told the media just last week that:
"According to available reliable information, in early June ISIL terrorists entered into collusion with the command of the Kurdish armed units, which are part of the Democratic Forces Union, left the populated localities of Tadia and al-Hamam located 19 kilometers southwest of Raqqa offering no resistance and headed toward Palmyra."
I wrote about this relationship in my article about the
Kurdish-Daesh-Saudi connection in Syria and Iran, which also makes it abundantly clear that my professional use of the word "Kurd", unless otherwise and explicitly specified, always refers solely to Kurdish militant groups, NOT the peaceful and law-abiding majority of this demographic.
Comment: The truth about Saif al-Islam: