In Syria as in Iraq, the Kurds have been the West’s most steadfast allies against Islamic State. Their victory over ISIS complete, Kurdish fighters were naive enough to think they would be allowed to live in peace on the land they had defended and on which their brothers and sisters are buried. As the price of that innocence they are being pursued, tortured and assassinated once again, this time in Afrin, a Syrian city close to the Turkish border. The Kurds, who had been the seawall holding back the Islamist tide, are now...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 07, 2018 23:37 UTC