Webinar: Governance and security under the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration and Turkish-backed groups in Syria
Decades of atrocities by the Syrian regime led to an uprising against Syria’s dictatorship with the aim of effecting change and building a better future. Today, nine years after this uprising began, various extremist groups who hijacked the revolution control about 12% of Syria along with the Turkish military, while the Syrian regime, with the help of Russia and Iranian-backed groups, remains in power and controls over 60% of the country’s territory. Additionally, despite two large scale Turkish military invasions, the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) govern about 25% of Syrian land.

This panel will discuss the security, economy, and politics of the both areas under the AANES and those controlled by Turkish-backed groups in Syria, the recent fighting among the Turkish-backed groups in Afrin, and the future of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in fighting the extremist groups such as ISIS (Da’esh). Furthermore, the speakers will provide recommendations to the US government on Syria policy.
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2020 @ 11:00am EST
Online via Zoom
Speakers:
Najmaldin Karim: President of the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI)
Michael Mulroy: Former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense & Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute
Sinam Mohammed: Representative of the Syrian Democratic Council to the United States (SDC)
Fabrice Balanche- Professor at Lyon University & Adjunct Fellow to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)
Moderator: Yousif Ismael

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