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By Louisa Loveluck
7:52PM GMT 23 Feb 2016
Britain has seen "disturbing evidence" that Kurdish forces are coordinating with the Syrian regime and the Russian air force, the Foreign Secretary has said.
The Kurdish YPG, which has become the West’s main ground force against Isil, has taken advantage of a massive regime offensive in north Syria to seize territory of its own from US-backed rebels, effectively leaving Washington in a proxy war with itself.
"What we have seen over the last weeks is very disturbing evidence of coordination between Syrian Kurdish forces, the Syrian regime and the Russian air force which are making us distinctly uneasy about the Kurds' role in all of this," Philip Hammond told Parliament on Tuesday.
After years of marginalisation at the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Syria’s Kurds have emerged as one of the war’s key power brokers, enjoying the support of both Washington and Moscow, even as the two powers square off on opposing sides of the conflict.
Although Syria’s government and rebel forces have tentatively agreed to begin a temporary ceasefire on Saturday, the participation of the YPG remains in doubt. Speaking on conditon of anonymity, a YPG official said on Tuesday that the group was "seriously examining" the US and Russian-brokered plan before deciding whether to take part.
Rebel fighters take up positions overlooking the flashpoint northern town of Azaz near the Turkish border Photo: Reuters
For now, the Kurdish militia is closing in on Azaz, a rebel-held city near the Turkish border that has become one of the biggest prizes in the battle for northern Syria. If it falls, tens of thousands of Syrians who have sought refuge there from fighting outside the city could flee north to the closed Turkish border, exacerbating a humanitarian crisis that aid workers have described as the worst they have witnessed during five years of war.
Throughout 2014 and 2015, US-led warplanes supported the YPG as it has pushed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) from a broad stretch along the Turkish border, consolidating islands of territory that it one day hopes to join up into a mini Kurdish state.
But in recent months, the militia has turned towards Russia which is now providing the Kurds with the air cover needed to move in on rebel-held land along the Turkish border. In a sign of its warming relations with Russia, the YPG's political wing, the PYD, was rewarded with a diplomatic mission in Moscow earlier this month. Turkish politicians saw the move as a deliberate provocation and part of a wider bid to expand Russian regional influence.