“Syria Kurds seek bigger role after victories”. TDS (2015年6月17日). 2015年6月17日閲覧。 “The Kurds’ alliance with Washington has fueled suspicions in Damascus of a conspiracy to break up Syria, while the Kurds are irritated by what they see as government attempts to recover lost influence in the region”
Estimate as of mid November 2014, including numerous refugees. "Rojava’s population has nearly doubled to about 4.6 million. The newcomers are Sunni and Shia Syrian Arabs who have fled the scorched wasteland that Assad has made of his country. They are also Orthodox Assyrian Christians, Chaldean Catholics, and others, from out of the jihadist dystopia that has taken up so much of the space where Assad’s police state used to be." “In Iraq and Syria, it's too little, too late”. Ottawa Citizen. (2014年11月14日). http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/iraq-and-syria-too-little-too-late
