Kurdish Military Council

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This is an alternate history wiki. It mixes fact and fiction, and should not be mistaken for a reliable source.

The Kurdish Military Council was an alliance of small Kurdish Free Syrian Army brigades formed in December 2012. Active primarily in Aleppo governorate, the KMC had an uneasy relationship with the larger People's Protection Units (YPG). Most rebel groups, including much of the KMC, held the view that the YPG and its parent party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), were cooperating with the Assad government against the revolution. The YPG/PYD, in turn, viewed the rebels as sectarian bandits and a threat to the Kurdish autonomy project. Some of the KMC's member groups clashed with the YPG, while others tried to remain neutral. By late 2013, the rise of hardline Islamists and jihadists within the rebellion had convinced many pro-rebel Kurds that violent confrontation with the PYD was no longer tenable. The KMC, weakened by harassment from both the YPG and other rebel groups, agreed to a formal ceasefire with the YPG in DATE TBD, focusing their efforts on fighting ISIS and other jihadis. In this capacity they cooperated with the YPG and its allies, including the pro-PYD Jabhat al-Akrad, and in DATE TBD joined Euphrates Volcano, a joint YPG-FSA operations room.

The following groups made up the Kurdish Military Council: