For first time in conflict, Assad launches airstrikes on US-backed Kurds
The YPG makes up a significant portion of the US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish and Arab alliance that fights against Islamic State insurgents in Syria.
A militiaman of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Tel Tawil village, northeast Syria, fires an anti-aircraft weapon in the direction of Islamic State fighters(photo credit: RODI SAID / REUTERS)ByREUTERSUpdated:
