Aug 14, 2020
Claimed ISIS attacks in Turkish and opposition-controlled
northwest Syria have spiked in the past two months. The United
States scaled down its forces in Syria and
Iraq after the defeat of the Islamic
State’s contiguous territorial caliphate in
2019. US policy-makers have since focused
on empowering local forces who fought in the anti-ISIS
coalition, including NATO ally Turkey. However, Turkey’s
commitment to this fight remains uncertain. In this episode of
Overwatch, Eva Kahan, ISW’s Evans-Hanson fellow,
discusses these issues and what they mean for US national
security.