Will Anyone Come to the Aid of the Kurds?

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The Kurds in Syria fighting to keep their militia, and on their call for American help, can be found here: “Kurdish commander calls on US to ‘intervene forcefully’ in Syria clashes,” Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2026:

[People’s Protection Units (YPG) commander Sipan] Hamo denied that the YPG was receiving support from Iran or Russia, while suggesting a hope that Israel would intervene on behalf of Syria’s Kurds.

Of course, Iran would not be supporting the Kurds in Syria. Tehran has to worry about Kurdish separatists in Iran. It would not make sense to help the Kurdish military just across the border in Syria, for if their militia remains intact it will naturally be an ally of the Kurdish militia in Iraq.

“Of course, we consider Israel a powerful state in the region with its own agenda. We hope that the same stance taken by other countries in the region towards certain minorities in Syria will be extended to the Kurds as well,” Hamo said.

Asked if he was referring to Israel’s stance towards the Druze minority last summer – when Israel carried out air strikes on the defense ministry, near the presidential palace in Damascus, and on Syrian troops advancing on Druze cities – Hamo said, “of course.”

In other words, the Kurdish military leader saw how the IDF came to the aid of the Syrian Druze when they were under assault, and stopped the Syrian army’s aggression against them, by bombing both the defense ministry and close to the presidential palace in Damascus — a demonstration to the regime of what the IDF could do — and by bombing Syrian troops that were approaching Druze cities. And now he is hoping that the IDF will do the same for the Kurds. Unlike the Trump administration, the Israelis remain mistrustful of Ahmed al-Sharaa, and his war on Syria’s minorities confirms that mistrust.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said he had spoken to Sharaa, expressing his concern about the ongoing government offensive against Western-backed Kurdish-led forces.

Macron, whose country has been part of mediation efforts between Damascus and the Kurds, said on Saturday that the offensive needed to stop….

The Kurds have long had a friend in France. Former President François Mitterand’s wife Danielle made the Kurds her special interest, and supported enforcement of a No-Fly Zone over Kurdish territories in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was still in power. From that time, until her death, she was known as “the Mother of the Kurds,” who supported their demands for autonomy in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and even Turkey. Now, President Emmanuel Macron, following her example, has demonstrated his interest in the Kurds by calling for Damascus to stop its offensive in Kurdish lands. However, at the same time, Macron has called for the Kurdish armed force, the SDF, to be integrated into the Syrian armed forces, which is exactly what the Kurds are resisting and the Syrian army attempting to impose. Apparently Macron thinks that if the Syrian army calls a halt to its attacks on the SDF, the Kurds will then agree to disband their SDF militia and have its men integrated into the Syrian army as individual soldiers. The Kurds will never agree to this; it would mean an end to their hard-won autonomy in northeast Syria, that they managed to achieve when the central government under Assad was fully occupied with fighting its civil war.

Israel will perhaps supply the Kurds with weapons, but likely won’t intervene by bombing Syrian army troops as it did to protect the Druze. The IDF is overstretched, and the reservists are exhausted, and there is another consideration: if the IDF now bombs the army of Ahmed al-Sharaa, Donald Trump’s new BFF, the President is likely to take offense, and the Israelis need to avoid angering this mercurial and unpredictable man.

Only the Americans can stop the Syrian army from continuing its assault on the Kurds. And unless Trump can be disabused of his dreamy belief that Ahmed al-Sharaa is neither a jihadist nor an Arab supremacist, and have his further faith in his other BFF, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, shaken, nothing will happen. The Kurds in Syria are on their own, battered from the southeast by the Syrian army and from the north by the Turkish troops that Erdogan has been sending into Syria to hold in check the Kurds, and to prevent them from receiving aid from, or from providing aid to, the Kurds in Turkey.