Wider Chaos Feared as Syrian Rebels and Kurds Clash -- New York Times
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey — In plain view of the patrons at an outdoor cafe here in this border town, the convoy of gun trucks waving the flag of the Syrian rebels whizzed through the Syrian village of Ras al-Ain. They had not come to fight their primary enemy, the soldiers of Bashar al-Assad’s government. They had rushed in to battle the ethnic Kurds.
The confrontation spoke not only to the violence that has enveloped Syria, but also to what awaits if the government falls. The fear — already materializing in these hills — is that Syria’s ethnic groups will take up arms against one another in a bloody, post-Assad contest for power.
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My Comment: Syria's Kurds are now fleeing into Iraq .... raising concerns in that country as Syria's civil war deepens.
Update: Syria's Kurds are divided even among themselves.
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