This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to a local journalist in

Northeast Syria in Comitili or Comitillo in Rejava. His name is Barakan Ahmed. He has been covering the recent

clashes between NDF Pro Assad Militiamen and the Kurdish SDF internal security forces known as the Asahiish.

Basically this NDF militia and the Asahih have been fighting each other.

It's gotten quite serious. but I can is going to explain it all for us.

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So you're in commissally right now, yeah?

Yeah, right, I'm in commiss

okay so they've been clashes between what the what are they like Assad regime militia right the

NDF and then the assaiy. Maybe just explain to us what has actually been going on,

what triggered all this?

Well, let's talk about who controls commercially, it's Asaius, the internal security forces which belong to the self-administration in

northeastern Syria.

And to talk about Comitiously as a city, course it's under under their control but the

Syrian regime has some like two headquarters inside the city and also they control

the airport the Com commissile airport. But there is a neighborhood called

Altai neighborhood which was, I mean, which was under the control of the national defense.

The national defense, it belongs to someone called

Mohammed Faris. He's from Altai tribe, it's an Arab tribe, and they started with this, with this force or with this group like since the beginning of the Syrian events.

I mean it was like a kind of support to the Syrian regime at that time you know

when they were when like the Free Syria army like pushing them and taking places from them so they

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