'Best bad option': Syria Kurds brace for regime return In Qamishli, the de-facto capital of Syria's embattled Kurdish minority, the future looks uncertain and shoppers at the market say they have no good options left. Between the eventual return of regime forces and an ever-present threat by rival Ankara, Syria's Kurds are concerned for the fate of the de facto autonomous region they have established across some 30 percent of the country's territory after the devastating war broke out in 2011. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES