Syria: who can you trust in Manajir?, by Carl Drott
English edition blogs, 8 April 2014
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Though the Assad regime has been severely weakened in the north-eastern corner of Syria, the two main forces confronting it are also confronting each other. The People’s Protection Units (YPG, a Kurdish left-wing organisation) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate) have radically different ideas about what kind of system should replace the current regime — the YPG favours a decentralised secular democracy, ISIS an Islamic caliphate.