This could potentially be a game changer in the area. If this coalition holds, they might get s*** done.
http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php...ia-forces.html
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A total of 13 organisations have announced the joint establishment of the Democratic Syria Forces.
The 13 organisations include;
- YPG/YPJ (Main Kurdish forces, YPJ is the womens force)
- Al-Sanadid Forces (bedouin tribal militia)
- Syriac Military Council (Christians)
- Burkan Al-Fırat Operations Center (not an actual group, but some kind of a joint Kurd/Arab anti-ISIS command operation)
- Suwar al-Raqqa (rebels from the Raqqa area)
- Shams al-Shamal (rebels from around Aleppo)
- Lîwa Al-Selcuki (Collection of FSA groups)
- Brigade Groups of Al-Jazira (never heard)
- Jabhat Al-Akrad (more Kurds)
- Jaysh Al-Thuwar (another collection of FSA groups)
- Lîwai Al-Tehrîr (no idea)
- Lîwai 99 Muşat (?)
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For some background, various Syrian rebel groups forming bigger groups is a continuation of a trend that's been going on all year, and is decisively an anti-ISIS development. The Arab rebels already formed their own anti-ISIS coalition earlier this year, and this is clearly an extension of that. It includes most notably the Kurds but also Assyrians, Turkmens and Syriacs. And of course Arabs. (That's about all the significan ethnic groups in Syria I think.)
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their primary objective was to fight the ISIS and forces attacking the peoples of Syria
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"This democratic step will enable the democratic unity of all Syrian peoples on the basis of women's freedom. Our basic objective is the founding of a democratic Syria.”
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How democratic is anyone's guess, but islamists would never sign on to that part about womens freedom. Which is why I think it's there. (Also I'm guessing YPJ wanted that in there, and since they've been one of the most succesful forces in the fight against ISIS, they have a some pull.)