Moreover, Kurdish independence could encourage demands for autonomy in the Sunni-majority provinces bordering Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia – a third region where Syria’s civil war is blurring international borders. Social, tribal, and economic ties between the provinces of Deir al-Zour in Syria and Anbar in Iraq are strong and have strengthened further as control by the Syrian and Iraqi governments has loosened.
此外，库尔德独立可能鼓励与叙利亚、约旦和沙特接壤的逊尼派占多数地区的自治要求——这也是叙利亚内战让国际边境变得模糊的第三个地区。叙利亚代尔祖尔省（Deir al-Zour）和伊拉克安巴尔省（Anbar）的社会、部落和经济联系很强，随着叙利亚和伊拉克政府控制的松动，这种联系进一步强化了。