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Bashar Assad is playing Syrian Kurds by pledging support against Turkey

By Tom Rogan
Published February 19, 2018 9:00pm ET
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Bashar Assad is playing Syrian Kurds by pledging support against Turkey
The dictator has his eyes on a bigger prize. (AP) | AP

Pledging to help Kurdish YPG forces repel a Turkish incursion into northern Syria, Bashar Assad is manipulating the YPG for his own interests.

What Assad really wants here is to twofold.

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