VOA Reporter Involved in Standoff Between Syrian Troops and Kurds

The leading Syrian Kurdish rebel group said it intends to form a government in Kurdish-dominated northeast Syria, where it has been operating as the de facto government since last year.  Jamie Dettmer was recently in Qamishli, about 650 kilometers northeast of Damascus, where he experienced just how dominant the Kurds have become in this corner of Syria.  Now, safely back in southeast Turkey,  tells about his experience of being the cause of a tense standoff between the...

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