🇺🇸🇸🇾 U.S. ENVOY BARRACK DROPS IN ON SYRIA’S KURDISH COMMAND - MESSAGE RECEIVED Tom Barrack, Washington’s Special Envoy to Syria, just made an unannounced visit to the SDF’s command center in al-Hasakah, sitting down with General Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish-led militia’s top commander. Officially? “Coordination talks.” Unofficially? A reality check - the U.S. is still very much in the Syrian game. The visit comes as Iran-backed militias test U.S. positions, Turkey threatens new cross-border strikes, and ISIS cells keep simmering beneath the surface. Barrack’s stop signals one thing: America isn’t packing up - not while the Kurds remain the only steady boots in a collapsing neighborhood. Abdi and the SDF run the de facto autonomous zone that Washington relies on to police what’s left of eastern Syria. The U.S. presence there has been shrinking, but Barrack’s handshake is a reminder - the alliance still holds, even if the mission’s name keeps changing. Quiet visit. Loud message. Source: @officialrnintel, SDF media, U.S. State Department briefings
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