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working in concert with the Syrian National Army, who are backed more directly by Turkey. If you recall in his first term, Trump sold out the majority-Kurdish (but multi-ethnic) Syrian Democratic Forces, who were the main U.S. allies against Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIL, ISIS, Daesh), to Erdogan. Trump has property interests in Turkey, and he admires Erdogan for being "strong." Turkish forces conquered a strip of territory along the border, including the town of Kobane, and have been hunting Kurds ever since. Erdogan claims he's fighting "terrorism" in battles against Kurdish Autonomous Eastern Syria (Rojava), but he seems increasingly genocidal. His larger goals appears to be in restoring the Ottoman Empire to its former "glory" with himself as Sultan (if not Caliph). How this plays, if at all, with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is anything but clear. This is not a two-sided war. It's really complex and shifting constantly.