The U.S. has for long been backing the SDF in their fight in northern Syria, as the group and the YPG have proven reliable allies of Washington, at least in the face of the IS.
Late last year, the SDF fighters liberated the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the IS, from the terror group.
The Kurdish-led groups are also controlling some oil-rich areas on the eastern bank of Euphrates River in northern Syria.
"It's going to be hard for the U.S. to halt its support or alliance with Kurds in the area because the U.S. has already established military positions there and doesn't seem willing to leave anytime soon," Ihsan said.
Meanwhile, Ankara will not backdown on its determination to eliminate what Turkey perceives as a Kurdish threat in northern Syria, as it fears any separatist sentiment could inspire the 14 million Kurds inside Turkey, he noted.
On Friday, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah group fighting alongside the Syrian government forces in Syria, said in a televised speech that one of the aims of the U.S., through its presence in Syria, is the oil and gas fields in the northeast of the region.
"The American occupation of the territory east of the Euphrates remains, because there are oil and gas wells," he said.
Hezbollah, allied with Iran to support the government of President Bashar al-Assad, has sparked tension with Israel, which has repeatedly said it won't tolerate any Iranian influence in Syria, particularly in the southern region close to its border.
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