Inside the threatened Kurdish proto-state that holds the keys to defeating Isil
On one end of Qamishli’s main street flies the two-starred national flag. On the other, that of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party. “One flag represents our past oppression, the other our freedom,” says Mahmoud, who owns a clothing shop which sits between the two. Before the civil war, it would have been unthinkable for the Kurdish minority to openly pledge allegiance to anything other than the But seven years into Syria's interminable conflict the Kurds appear to have carved out something of a proto-state in this corner of northeastern ...
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