https://magazine.zenith.me/en/politics/french-syria-expert-fabrice-balance-kurds-and-turkey French "expert"'s notes on the situation of civilians in northeastern Syria, where he spent a month. Despite the SDF nominally being a multicultural force with a lot of Arab fighters, local Arabs and Assyrians resent the PYD-dominated rule. Furthermore, as reconstruction has been limited, there's even nostalgia for ISIS.