The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) would deepen its military cooperation with the Syrian regime to ward off a potential Turkish offensive, officials announced on Monday. “We are working in coordination with Syrian [regime] officials to develop a common working formula and draw up a defence plan in the face of any Turkish aggression,” Nuri Mahmoud, the spokesperson for the People’s Protection Unit (YPG), the main militia of the AANES’ armed forces, told Sputnik on Monday. Mahmoud said that while there had been “positive developments” in this cooperation, t…