Will Russia play the Kurdish card?
On Sept. 27, the People's Protection Units (YPG) claimed responsibility for killing Abu Omar Al-Chechen, a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and 15 other members of the group. It could have been just another report on the never-ending skirmishes of the Syrian conflict if it hadn’t echoed miles away from the Middle East in another hotbed — the North Caucasus.
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