Ankara vs Washington Conflict about Kurds

Ankara-Washington conflict over training PKK-affiliated militia on Turkish borders:
https://ria.ru/syria/20180117/1512742334.html
https://ria.ru/syria/20180117/1512751349.html
https://ria.ru/syria/20180117/1512814366.html
https://ria.ru/syria/20180117/1512814768.html
Worth a read, RIA goes well through Gulag Translate

Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart had a meeting, oficially about National Congress in Sochi:
https://www.sana.sy/ru/?p=132559
https://sana.sy/en/?p=124678
https://ria.ru/syria/20180117/1512783423.html

De Mistura said Geneva 9 in 25-26 of the current month:
https://sana.sy/en/?p=124686

Syrian TV reporter martyred in Harasta today:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIfOdz-uj-U [Embed]

Somehow loyalists agreed to let Kurds through gov territories to Afrin. Are they afraid of Turks more?
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/kurdish-forces-reinforce-afrin-syrian-government-territories/

Ex-terrorists on US payroll:
>https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/columnists/20180116/10178366/byvshie-terroristy-na-sluzhbe-ssha-hvatit-li-amerikanskih-silenok-na-novuyu-bojnyu-v-sirii.html

Various footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhkJ_3jW5w [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKxCARHp_gU [Embed]