The YPG, the backbone of the US-backed SDF, withdrew from the Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) began withdrawing from Kurdish-majority neighborhoods in Aleppo on 2 December under an agreement with Turkish-backed extremist factions that recently seized control of the city and its surrounding countryside from the Syrian army.
The YPG had dispatched fighters to protect Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo in response to the attack by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Syrian National Army (SNA).
However, the YPG began withdrawing its forces Monday morning, with its fighters evacuating in equipped buses toward Manbij and Raqqa in northern and eastern Syria, a military source told Al-Hurra TV channel.
“The agreement allows Kurdish residents of the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods to remain if they choose,” the source added.
The YPG forms the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which occupies north and east Syria in partnership with the US military.
SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi described the developments in northwestern Syria as “rapid and unexpected.”
“We intervened to open a humanitarian corridor between our eastern territories, Aleppo, and Tal Rifaat after the collapse of Syrian government forces and their allies.”
The SDF, which is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), issued a general mobilization call on Sunday, claiming that the Turkish-backed extremist offensive will target areas under SDF control and governed by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
...The SDF partnered with US forces starting in 2015 to occupy large swathes of northeast Syria, including areas with Kurdish and Arab majorities east of the Euphrates River. The areas under US and SDF occupation are home to much of Syria’s oil and wheat production regions.
SDF and US forces regularly loot Syrian oil. Convoys of trucks transport Syrian oil to the neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. The oil is then transported to Turkiye for sale to Israel.
[See: @TheCradleMedia - The US Military And Its Kurdish Allies Steal 80% Of Syria’s Daily Oil Production And Smuggle It Into Iraq For Distribution.
Here's how they do it]
[Also: The Middle East Monitor reported in 2021 that the US “controls 90% of Syria’s Oil” …]
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