Donald Trump to arm Syrian Kurds against ISIS despite Turkish opposition

‘The Trump administration is to directly provide arms to Syrian Kurds to help in the fight against Isis – a move that is certain to anger regional ally Turkey.
Reports said the president had approached the plan to provide heavy weapons to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, as part of a plan to retake Raqqa, the Syrian city that is Isis’s defacto capital.
The US sees the Kurds as its most effective battlefield proxy in the fight against Isis in northern and eastern Syria. But Turkey says the group is an extension of an organisation operating inside its border which it considers a terror group.’
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