With more than 7 million people displaced and over half a million killed, it appears the Syrian Civil War has been lost to President Bashar Al-Assad.
With the impending departure of American troops in Syria and the inevitable vacuum which will exist in their absence, focus is now shifting northward to the border shared with Turkey and where Kurdish militias anxiously await a Turkish incursion aimed specifically at their destruction.
Tonight the last Dark Secret Place of a tumultuous 2018, Bryan breaks down the situation on the ground in Syria, and introduces listeners to who exactly make up the group known internationally as "Kurds."