The SDF General Commander, Mazloum Abdi, said they stopped combatting the terrorist organization due to the
Abdi pointed out that the US-led Coalition did not issue any statement against Turkiye for targeting the SDF forces.
Many of the SDF's members come from the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian-based offshoot of the
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...-based Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), labeled by both Ankara and Washington as a terrorist organization.
In Turkey, the SDF and YPG are the same. And
SDF and PKK denied involvement in the bombing.
Since 2015, US military forces have been present in Syria, supporting the Kurdish-led SDF fight against ISIS and providing humanitarian, military, and financial assistance.