Fierce clashes continue in northern Syria between U.S.-backed Kurdish forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed groups, resulting in around 40 deaths. Despite U.S. efforts to ease tensions, Turkey views the YPG as a PKK-linked terrorist group.

DAMASCUS—Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by air strikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria’s northern Manbij

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces reported that six of its fighters were killed in clashes with Turkey-backed Syrian rebels in Manbij, northern Syria. Nine additional fighters were injured.

Syria’s new authorities are cracking down on former regime cells in Alawite neighborhoods in Homs and coastal areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. At the same time, heavy fighting broke out in northern Syria’s Manbij between Turkish-backed groups and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),

Turkish-backed SNA and Kurdish-led SDF around Syria's Tishrin dam as Israel arrested journalists near Quneitra

After the fall of Bashar Assad ‘s regime in Syria, the incoming Trump administration faces a complex set of challenges. Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to reduce U.S. involvement overseas, completely disengaging from Syria may not be a viable option.

The consequences of Turkey’s and its Islamist allies’ ​potential ​takeover of northeastern Syria are profound, with significant implications for U.S. national security interests.

A senior U.S. diplomat in northern Syria, William V. Roebuck, in a memo, called it “a catastrophic sideshow” and “an intentioned-laced effort at ethnic cleansing” with reference to Erdogan’s plan to replace the Kurdish population with Syrian refugees from Turkey. There was a similar displacement after the Turkish occupation of Afrin.

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.In August that year,

The call, combined with various promises of economic and constitutional support to the Islamist regime led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaida affiliate, demonstrates how the imperialist powers intend to use Syria’s regime change to step up their war on Russia and prepare an all-out conflict with Iran.

The resurgence is likely to continue, the Institute for National Security Studies' Yoram Schweitzer tells JNS.