US EditionSyrian Government and Kurdish-Led SDF Agree Ceasefire and Integration Deal
The deal ends weeks of fighting, includes SDF withdrawal, merging of security forces, and guarantees Kurdish civil and educational rights, U.S. envoy calls it a historic milestone.
- The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced on Friday a new agreement with the Syrian government, which Syrian authorities confirmed to Reuters as a step to stabilize a pause in fighting.
- Syrian government forces, after taking swathes of territory in recent weeks, seized most of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces' land following intense Jan. 6 clashes and a stalled March merger agreement.
- The agreement creates three Syrian army brigades from SDF units, embeds an SDF brigade within a government brigade in Aleppo province, and deploys Syrian Ministry of Interior forces to Hasakeh, Qamishli, and Kobane.
- With the ceasefire extended, the agreement deals a blow to Kurdish hopes for self-rule and confines them to Kurdish-majority areas, according to sources.
- Amid efforts by Syria's new authorities to extend state control, the U.S. pushed both sides to make a deal this month and moved closer to Damascus under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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The Kurdish forces announced on Friday an agreement with the Syrian Government that extends the ceasefire between the two sides to the entire country and implies the gradual integration into the State of the civilian and military institutions of the hitherto autonomous project of the north and east. The pact, which the Central Executive has confirmed through national television, gives Damascus control of the territory, borders and resources of t…
After weeks of fighting, the government and the Kurds in Syria have reached a comprehensive ceasefire agreement. So far, controversial issues such as the integration of the Kurdish armed forces have been eliminated, it said. von Moritz Behrendt.
The agreement puts an end to the hopes of the Kurds for autonomy, who still obtain certain concessions.
The leadership in Damascus and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces have agreed on an agreement, so the militias are to be integrated into the Syrian state.
Under this agreement, concluded after months of fighting and chaos in Syria, the forces and administration of the Kurdish autonomous zone will gradually be integrated into the Syrian state.
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