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A bit like if in the middle of a fire you don't want to call the firefighters, thinking that sooner or later the flames will go out on their own. The team is in free fall, hasn't won in seven games ...

The SDF commander, Mazloum Abdi, called the fall of Damascus a historic moment. But the tacit agreements the SDF had with the old regime are now gone. Its position, particularly in Raqqa, is tenuous.