{"id":1077,"date":"2017-10-21T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/sdf-wont-hand-over-raqqah-to-syrian-government\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T08:16:32","slug":"sdf-wont-hand-over-raqqah-to-syrian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/sdf-wont-hand-over-raqqah-to-syrian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"SDF won\u2019t hand over Raqqah to Syrian government"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A US-backed grouping of militants that calls itself the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the Syrian city of Raqqah, where Daesh terrorists have recently left, will be part of a system of \u2018federal government\u2019 in the country\u2019s north.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe SDF said on Friday that it had \u2018liberated\u2019 Raqqah after driving out Daesh terrorists from the city, which was Daesh\u2019s former \u2018capital\u2019 in Syria; but the terrorist group had largely left the city as part of a deal with the SDF and a US-led coalition, both of which are operating in Syria without the Syrian government\u2019s permission, presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, the SDF said the political future of the city and the province of the same name would be determined \u201cwithin the framework of a decentralized, federal, democratic Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe thinking behind the brazen announcement by the mainly Kurdish group was not clear. Raqqah is territory of Syria, which is governed by a sovereign power, the Damascus government.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Syrian military has so far not taken on the Kurdish militants. But the SDF has reportedly shelled the positions of government troops on several occasions in recent weeks, and with its refusal to hand over Raqqah to the government, the SDF now risks further provoking the Syrian military, which is also receiving aerial cover from the Russian military.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn ominous wording, the SDF also said that it would protect the frontiers of the province against all external threats.<\/p>\n

\n\tKurdish militants in neighboring Iraq, who had likewise overrun territory in the course of fighting with Daesh there, are now facing Iraqi government operations to drive them out.<\/p>\n

\n\tSDF spokesman Talal Silo has said the group would hand over the control of the city to what he called \u2018the Raqqah Civil Council,\u2019 likely a Kurdish body.<\/p>\n

\n\tSyrian Minister of National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar reacted by saying that Raqqah\u2019s future could only be discussed as part of the final political structure of the Syrian state.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has, meanwhile, said that the SDF\u2019s purported operations in Raqqah have killed civilians and damaged infrastructure in the city.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you\u2019re killing around 1,200 civilians \u2014 nearly half of them women and children \u2014 and destroying 80 percent of the city, that\u2019s not liberating Raqqah,\u201d Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the SOHR, told Arab News daily.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe SDF is dominated by the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) militia.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday, the YPG held a \u2018victory\u2019 parade in Raqqah\u2019s central al-Naim Square. During the event, the militants put up a huge poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which is outlawed in Turkey.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday, Reuters said Saudi Arabia\u2019s Persian Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan and US special envoy to the Syria war coalition Brett McGurk had visited Raqqah.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the raising of the Ocalan banner by the US-backed Kurdish forces was proof that Washington is not only cooperating with terrorists, but they are endangering the future of Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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