US EditionSyria says Sharaa, Trump discuss Kurdish rights as forces deploy in country's north, east
The integration deal led to a ceasefire unraveling with clashes and IS detainee escapes; Kurdish leaders agreed to avoid wider war, while government forces took control of key areas, including oil fields.
- On Monday, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa phoned US President Donald Trump to discuss guaranteeing Kurdish rights and preserving Syria's unity after a truce deal.
- Analysts said rapid government gains earlier this month undercut Kurdish de facto autonomy, while Mazloum Abdi agreed on Sunday to the deal to avoid civil war, yet Kurdish sources said talks with Sharaa were not positive.
- On Sunday the SDF withdrew from key oil fields including Al-Omar and Tanak, while local Arab-majority fighters in Deir Ezzor seized areas ahead of government forces and security convoys entered Raqa city.
- A defence ministry map on Monday showed government control of all Deir Ezzor and Raqa provinces after the Jan 18 handover, and the interior ministry said it will manage IS prisoners and families.
- Despite the truce, brief clashes erupted Monday evening in Raqa city and the SDF accused government forces of shelling Al-Aqtan prison holding ISIS members, claims AFP could not verify.
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The West has abandoned the Kurds
Earlier this week, a group of Syrian Arab men took hammers to a statue of a female fighter in the northern city of Tabqah. The statue had been erected relatively recently by the Syrian Democratic Forces (the SDF), the Kurdish-led coalition who expelled Isis from its former heartlands between 2015 and 2019 and governed had vast area of north-east Syria as an autonomous region ever since. The warrior stood as a symbol of the fight against Isis’s m…
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BreitbartTrump Calls Syria’s Jihadi President Ahmad al-Sharaa as Kurds Denounce Beheadings, ISIS Prison Break
President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Monday to discuss the conflict between Sharaa’s forces and the Kurds of northeastern Syria, who have complained of abuses by government troops and blamed them for releasing around 120 Islamic State terrorists ...
Syrian army advances risk fragile deal with Kurdish fighters
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa and President Trump spoke by phone today, pledging support for Syria’s unity and territorial integrity. In practical terms, that means integrating the Kurdish-controlled northeast into the Syrian state. That objective has been the subject of months of quiet negotiations, held in Damascus and elsewhere, including Paris. This week, those talks produced a breakthrough, at least on paper. The Syrian Democratic Force…
While fierce fighting continues between Kurdish forces and Islamist government troops in northern Syria, thousands of supporters of the »Islamic State« have already escaped from prisons
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