Syria’s Kurdish-led administration calls on Biden for political recognition
SDF commander Mazlum Kobane told Al-Monitor last month he hopes the Biden administration will double the US troop presence in northeast Syria.
Northeast Syria’s Kurdish-led administration is calling on US President-elect Joe Biden to formally recognize its autonomous status within Syria.
Sinam Mohamad, the Washington envoy of the political body affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made the appeal during a think tank event alongside two former US officials earlier this month.
“We call on the Biden administration to recognize North and East Syria,” Mohamad said, speaking at the event alongside former US envoy for Syria James Jeffrey and Michael P. Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East.
The statement is the latest sign the SDF is seeking new footing with its military backers in Washington more than a year after the now-departing Trump administration allowed Turkey to attack the Kurdish-led forces.
