US envoy meets with SDF in northern Syria, pledges support - Rudaw

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—The United States’ presidential envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, Brett McGurk, met with Kurdish allies in northern Syria last week, a State Department official told AFP on Monday. His visit comes as the US’ support for the Kurdish forces has come into question after the Turkish army launched its military operation Euphrates Shield to clear Islamic State (ISIS) militants from the border and to stop Kurdish advances west of the Euphrates River. McGurk met with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition force dominated by the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG). T…