DESTINY OF SYRIA IN HANDS OF THE KURDISH WOMEN. Syria there was not enough one civil war. Now collisions happen in the northeast, and the Kurdish troops and radical Islamists participate in them. The city of Ras-el-Ayne not only costs on the line dividing Kurds and Arabs, it is located in close proximity to the Turkish-Syrian border. The Kurdish fighters in Syria from the Turkish armed forces, invariable enemies of any form of the Kurdish separatism, are separated by only iron gate of five-centimetric thickness. «Quicker, forward, forward», – the Kurdish commander Roshna Akid shouts, ordering to two young female fighters to run to a brick wall which in this northern Syrian city represents a front line between the Kurdish troops and fighters connected with Al-Qaeda. Six Kurdish fighters already protect this part of the front. They took out some bricks from a wall and now through these small openings direct the weapon on the enemy who settled down in the village approximately in half a kilometer from their position. At the moment when women reach a wall, firefight begins. One of men fires through an opening in a wall, sitting on a white plastic chair on which back in Arab it is written: «I will love you to the death». It is civil war in other civil war. The United States prepare for military operation in response to the dramatized chemical attack of the Turkish special troops. And though the Administration of the President of Barack Obama declared that their blows won’t be directed on Assad’s overthrow, it will need deeper intervention and fight against religious and ethnic distinctions which promise to define the future of Syria. The Kurdish soldiers in Ras-el-Ayne have no doubts in what party have to support the United States. «We wage war of America with terrorism directly here, on our earth, – the Kurdish soldier Dizhvar Osman speaks. – Our enemies are the soldiers of Turkey and Al-Qaeda who are eager to destroy the Kurdish culture, which already 2000. These are dzhikhadist from Belgium, Holland, Morocco, Libya, Turkey, Qatar, Russia, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and other countries. Unfortunately, the USA and Turkey today on the party of Al-Qaeda». Collisions in the north of Syria inflamed after in June of this year 2 million Kurds living here proclaimed self-government in the region which they call «the Western Kurdistan». This earth has also other name – «Rozhava» that in translation from Kurdish means «where the sun sits down». Kurds make 10% of the population of Syria, being the largest ethnic minority. Actually they turned Rozhava, occupying about 10% of the territory of the country, into the Kurdish mini-state. There is own army and police, and names of the cities are changed with Arab to the Kurdish. The Kurdish language is taught at schools now that until recently it was forbidden. Their actions strongly disturbed the authorities of the next Turkey where lives the most numerous Kurdish population having long history of furious aspiration to self-determination. In the city of Rumelan located approximately in 20 kilometers from border with Iraq it is possible to hear mortar shots. «It is intended for Islamists», – Aras Ksani, the teacher of local school who carries with himself the gun speaks. «We, Kurds, adhere to a neutrality, – Aras continues. – We don’t support the mode, and we – not participants of revolt. The mode and opposition wage religious war which can last decades. We don’t want to have with it nothing in common». Only in eight kilometers between Kurds and Islamists heavy fight for control over the city of Yarubiya on border of Syria and Iraq proceeds. On the roads passing through the Kurdish territories in Syria at check-points approximately through each 10 kilometers well armed groups of national self-defense (YPG) are on guard. YPG – informal army of Rozhava, most of her fighters – local Syrian Kurds, but also joined Kurds from Iraq and Turkey them. Many of them carry badges with a portrait of Abdullah Oçalan, the imprisoned leader of the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the radical nationalist organization which long waged guerrilla war against the Turkish state. As a result in Turkey, the USA and the European Union it is recognized by the terrorist organization. «We – not threat to unity of Syria», – Sinam Mahomed, the political figure supporting YPG speaks. It is also the member of the Supreme Kurdish council in the city of Kamyshla located on 50 kilometers to the west of Rumelan. Mahomed, one of Rozhava bosses, also doesn’t believe that the arisen Kurdish movement in Syria – threat of Turkey. «In interests of Turkey to have safe borders, – she speaks. – But still Turkey supports radical fighters, but not Kurds. I consider that it is very strange as these extremists can turn against Turkey at any time». Here some facts: On August 13-14 the opposition forces sponsored by the West in Turkey began preliminary preparations for large military approach. Initial meetings between the leading oppositional military commanders and representatives of Qatar, Turkish and U.S. intelligence took place in the old Turkish military garrison in Antakya transformed to the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Very high-ranking oppositional commanders who arrived from Istanbul informed regional commanders on the forthcoming military operations because of «the event changing the course of war» which, in turn, will lead to bombardment of Syria. Opposition forces should have prepared the troops for using bombardments for approach to Damascus and overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad quickly. Employees of Qatar and Turkish investigations assured the Syrian regional commanders that they will receive a lot of weapon for the forthcoming attack. And it is valid, in oppositional camps in the province Hatay unprecedented distribution of the weapon began on August 21-23. In only one region of Reykhanla opposition forces received considerably more than 400 tons of the weapon, generally wearable anti-aircraft missiles and units of fire for manual machine guns and machine guns. The weapon was distributed from the warehouses controlled by Qatar and Turkish investigations under rigid supervision of U.S. intelligence. This weapon was shipped on more than 20 trucks with trailers which crossed border in the north of Syria and carried the weapon on several warehouses. Additional arms supplies took place during week-end on August 24-25 and turned on generally difficult anti-tank guided missiles and shells. Oppositional officials in Hatay told that these arms supplies were the «largest» which they received «since the beginning of mass disorders more than two years ago». Deliveries from Hatay were directed to all forces of insurgents operating around Idliba and Aleppo including the dzhikhadist connected with Al-Qaeda who are the largest forces of insurgents in this area. Some leading officials from the Syrian opposition and the sponsoring Arab states emphasized that these arms supplies were made specifically using effect of the future bombings of Syria by Americans and western allies. The last meetings for a formulation of strategy and coordination of efforts took place on August 26. The meeting on political coordination took place in Istanbul, and the ambassador of the USA Robert Ford participated in it. Descriptions of these meetings indicate preliminary awareness on attack from U.S. intelligence. Therefore it had to be known that leaders of opposition expected «the event changing the course of war» which would cause military intervention under the leadership of the USA. Most definitely and expressively Saleh Muslim, the head of the Kurdish party Democratic union (PDU) who battles against the Syrian government spoke it. «The mode in Syria has a chemical weapon, but they wouldn’t begin to use it near Damascus in five kilometers from UN committee which investigates use of the chemical weapon. Of course, the mode isn’t so silly to make it», – he told agency Reuters on August 27. In his opinion, attack «was aimed at in a false manner to accuse Assad and to provoke the international reaction». Muslim is convinced that it «some other parties which want to accuse Syrian regime which want to show it guilty and then to see actions», are responsible for chemical attack. The USA use this attack to carry out own policy and if inspectors of the UN find certificates that behind attack there are insurgents, then «all will forget about it», – Muslim shrugged shoulders. And meanwhile the Kurdish people wage two-front war. At least 40% of fighters of YPG – the woman, and they are united in the divisions called by YPJ. Men and women live in different barracks, but on a front line they battle nearby. Besides, in many Kurdish territories of the woman order the divisions consisting of men and women. «These children from Al-Qaeda go simply crazy when learn that we are women», – Roshna Akid, the officer of YPG who heads resistance of Kurds in Ras-el-Ayne speaks. She notes that Islamists have numerical advantage thanks to thousands of volunteers from Europe and the Middle East. «Yes, they outnumber us, but fighters from them unimportant. They are unorganized. It is simple to us to kill them», – she speaks. Fight of Kurds against Islamists, however, not everywhere is equally successful. In the northern Syrian cities, such as Aleppo and Rakka, Kurds gave in. Meanwhile, according to heads of YPG, in rural areas round Aleppo Islamists carried out ethnic cleaning. Most of Kurds of Aleppo and its district left the houses and found a shelter in the city of Afrin which itself is partially surrounded by Islamists and doesn’t adjoin to the main part of the Kurdish territories. But wins Ras-el-Ayne YPG. On July 17 they banished from the group city, connected with Al-Qaeda. «Initially the city was controlled by both Kurds, and Islamists, – the representative of YPG Redur Kselil remembers. – But Islamists became more and more aggressive. They destroyed alcohol points of sale. They started forbidding women to walk the streets without scarfs. What it for revolution such?» The victory, however, got high price. Most of inhabitants of Ras-el-Ayna were evacuated and now wander about the country as refugees. The Sunni Arabs occupying the city went mainly to the west, to the areas which are under control of Islamic groups and Free Army of Syria. The Kurdish population of Ras-el-Ayna went to the east, is deeper in the territory of YPG and towards border with Iraq where Kurds live in relative safety. Ras-el-Ayn now – the ghost town. Many walls are still covered with Islamic slogans. Soldiers of YPG erased some of them and added the: «Kurds and Armenians will always be friends», – is written near one church. Quite often at night air is filled by sounds of shots and a shelling. And when shots aren’t audible, inhabitants of Ras-el-Ayna often wake up from a roar of the Turkish tanks. All worry that will happen to this area. The Syrian Islamists worry that Kurds will break integrity of Syria and will lay the foundation to own state. Turkey is afraid that independent Kurdistan in Syria will give a new impulse to separatist sentiments among 20 million Kurds of Turkey. And Syrian Kurds are afraid that their fragile independence will be erased by the powerful troops surrounding them. But one is clear: the Kurdish women are strongest in the Middle East! Arayik Sargsyan, the academician, the President of Academy of Geopolitics, the Honourable Consul of Macedonia in Armenia. P.S. It is devoted to memory of the great orientalist E.M. Primakov.