Commander of Kurdish forces in Syria speaks about the challenges ahead

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Syria is going through historic changes and that has some minority groups on edge. Take the Kurds, who have their own autonomous region in the northeast. They say Turkey is preparing a military attack against them, and they fear a resurgence of ISIS. The World’s Shirin Jaafari speaks with the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), General Mazloum Abdi, about the challenges ahead.

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