CNN —A crucial dam is at risk as fighting continues in several areas of northern Syria between Kurdish groups and Turkish-backed factions. However, video surfaced Friday purporting to show fighters from a Turkish-backed group in control of the bridge over the dam. Some experts have expressed concern that the fighting could damage the dam and cause extensive flooding of more than 40 villages downstream. The SDF has been a US ally since 2017 in the battle to eradicate ISIS, the terror group which at one point held a large swathe of northern Syria. The SDF and other Kurdish elements have controlled several enclaves in northern Syria since regime control in the north evaporated when ISIS was at its height in 2015.

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Persons: Assad, Bashar al, Yasumasa Kimura, Antony Blinken, Hakan Fidan, Syria –, Blinken, Jennifer Hansler, Nechirvan Mando Organizations: CNN, Syrian Democratic Forces, Free Syrian Army, UN, United Nations Children’s Fund, ISIS, Turkish Locations: Syria, Manbij, Turkish, Aleppo, Raqqa, Kurdish, Turkey, Ankara, Al Hol