After President Trump embraced the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al Sham-Al Qaeda affiliated group, Ahmad al-Sharaa, and empowered him in his Presidency, the Kurds in Syria returned to the start line of the unwilling marathon, which means fight the radical Islam formed in a government. Trusting Trump in supporting the Kurds in Syria has been questionable and to him there are no long term allies. Trump’s agenda in Syria is posing a great threat to the Kurds, and the American lawmakers have been silent on Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud and al-Ashrafieh neighborhoods attack by the Syrian regime’s armed forces and militias. 

Apparently, the Kurdish struggle to obtain the ethnic rights and political identity did not end with the collapse of Bashar al-Assad regime, and there is a long way for the Kurds to reach the finish line. From Al-Assad’s chauvinistic to Al-Sharaa’s Islamic, the terror against the Kurds is continuing with Turkey vowing its support to the Syrian regime. Al-Sharaa’s regime is now serving the Turkish agenda against the Kurds in Turkey while the U.S is observing.

In the past, Trump did not consider Turkey’s attack on the Kurds as a major issue and humanitarian crisis in the area as in 2019, he absurdly resembled the fight between Turkey and the (SDF) to children fight, “Sometimes you have to let them fight. It’s like two kids in a lot, you got to let them fight and then you pull them apart.” Trump said.

Al-Sharaa has brought a new era of terror to Syria backed by Trump, and while the Syrian government committed vicious acts against the Kurds in Aleppo, Trump simply called for peace and to stop the fight while the Syrian forces continued the attacks. Evidently, Trump’s hope and focus on Syria’s stabilization is to reduce the threat to Israel. 

The Kurds in Syria are among the hurricane of Islamic authority, Arab and Turkish chauvinism, and untrusted friends, such as the U.S.  Inviting Al-Sharaa to the White House and meeting with Trump in November, 2025 enhanced the Islamic regime of Syria and empowered Al-Sharaa to implement an Islamic rule formed in a legitimate system. 

 After the heinous operations against the civilians, only one Republican Senator, Jim Risch (R-Idaho), expressed concern about the human rights violation against the Kurds in Aleppo. “I am gravely concerned about the conduct of armed forces in Aleppo, Syria, over the past week and urge the government to hold accountable those who committed these egregious acts.” Sen. Risch wrote on X. Obviously, Sen. Risch is asking the Syrian government to hold the perpetrators accountable but in fact Al-Sharaa himself leads the perpetrators! 

Seemingly, the Kurdish rights will not be recognized through the peace process in Syria nor in Turkey. It has been nearly eight months, which was May, 2025, since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced its disarmament answering a call from its leader Abdullah Ocalan to engage in the democratic process in Turkey and become a part of the system with a hope for the release of Ocalan from prison.  Erdogan’s regime has no intention to recognize the Kurdish political identity in Turkey. 

Al-Sharaa has paved the path for Erdogan’s involvement in Syria to achieve a mutual goal, which is ending the (SDF) and its call for Kurdish autonomy in Syria. According to Sipan Hemo, a member of the (SDF) General Command, that the attack on Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhoods was a plot by the Syrian government. “The plot is against the existence of the Kurdish people,” Hemo said. 

Turkey also played a major role in the operation as Hemo said,

“Let me be explicit: the drones over Sheikh Maqsood and the tanks used against it were all Turkish,” he said.

President Trump is aiming at a stronger relationship with Syria’s Sunni Islamic regime to shield the area from Iranian proxies and provide a protection to Israel; he is unlikely to take a decisive action to protect the Kurds from the attacks of the Syrian forces and its militias Syria. With Trump’s agreement with Al-Sharaa to combat (ISIS), the (SDF)’s mission was ended, and the U.S is gradually shifting from the Kurds in Syria. 

The conflict of the Kurds-Al-Sharaa/Erdogan did not emerge with the (SDF)’s existence, it is a historical opposition of Arabs and Turks to the Kurdish rights to self governing. 

With Trump being in office, alliance with the U.S is on a fragile foundation, the Kurds in Syria should seek another ally that is more trustworthy.