US Exit Seen as a Betrayal of the Kurds, and a Boon for ISIS on December 21, 2018The day that President Trump ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, the Islamic State claimed that it had set off a bomb in Raqqa, the group’s former capital, killing a Kurdish fighter. It was a small, isolated attack, but the Islamic State’s boast was a canny assertion of the stakes in the American […]