“Syrian Kurds take a town 30 miles from the ISIS capital, but their goal of their own nation complicate the fight. Ethnic Kurds—who on Tuesday scored their second and third significant victories over ISIS in the space of eight days—are by far the most effective force fighting ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. But they appear to intent on keeping all the ground they’ve taken from the militant group for their own national project, endangering the larger cause of keeping these two battered nation-states in one piece, and raising the prospect of another war patiently waiting at the conclusion of the current one.”
Source: The Kurds Are Building a Country With Every Victory Over ISIS | TIME