Earlier in the day, SDF spokesman Talal Silo drew attention to the exceptionality of the U.S. latest supply of weapons by telling Reuters that they were provided with only light weapons and ammunition in the past.
Turkey says the Kurdish expansion is illegitimate, arguing the Kurdish militia ethnically cleansed the areas it captured by driving local Arabs away in a bid to create a Kurdish-dominated region in northern Syria.
Ankara has long criticized Washington for providing weapons to the YPG, which is seen by Turkey as the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The PKK has been waging a bloody war against Turkey since 1984 to carve out an autonomous, if not independent, Kurdistan in the country's mainly Kurdish-populated southeast.
"The U.S. and Russia seem to have reached a top-level consensus regarding Kurds," stated Dilek, a former military officer.
Russia has gotten what it wanted in Syria and would let the U.S. have what it wants for Kurds, observed Yilmaz.
"Russia and the U.S. have a tacit agreement over (the future of) Syria. Global powers don't take into account regional powers in their calculations," he added.
In response to Trump's move on safe zones, the Syrian government on Monday described his attempt, if not coordinated with Damascus, as "unsafe action" that would violate the country's sovereignty.
Analysts, however, believe that Syria, with its military being greatly weakened by years of fighting, would settle for a federal Syria to maintain the country's territorial integrity.
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