A Kurdish representative to the United States says a staging area within northeast Syria could be the city of Qamishli, located along the Syrian-Turkish border, home to ethnic Syrian Kurds, Christians and moderate Sunni Arabs. The city also contains an international airport, useful to bring in supplies. “If the U.S. needs a staging area inside Syria, this could potentially be an ideal location because the people there are sympathetic to the West and not ISIS,” said Kurdish director of U.S. congressional affairs Karwan Zebari.