*** First of All: About the Experiment in Rojava

*** The Factions

*** Has ISIS Been Defeated? And by Whom?

*** Outside Interventions

*** What Does the Troop Withdrawal Mean?

*** What Will Happen Next?

**** First Scenario

**** Second Scenario

*** Looking Forward

*** Appendix: Rival Narratives

**** Loyalist narrative:

**** Western, gulf Arab, and rebel narrative:

**** Turkish narrative:

**** Western, Kurdish narrative:

**** ISIS and radical Islamist narrative: