The new Syrian government has reached an integration agreement with the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). If the agreement is implemented, the territory that the SDF has controlled since 2015 will pass under Damascus's control.
This was reported by Al Jazeera.
Last Monday, March 10, Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the head of the SDF, Mazloum Abdi, signed an agreement on the influence of Kurdish forces on Syrian institutions.
The signed agreement "underlines the unity of Syria" and provides for "the unification of the territory controlled by the SDF with the rest of the country."
The agreement also provides for a ceasefire throughout Syria and support for the SDF in the fight against the forces of the fugitive Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
According to Al Jazeera, discussions about integrating the SDF into the Syrian state have been ongoing since the fall of Assad, but have been hampered by divisions that have emerged over the years of war. This is due to the fact that the Kurds in the SDF have taken an ambivalent position on Assad than other opposition forces.
In addition, the SDF, whose leadership is secular and linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has repeatedly clashed with Syrian groups supported by Turkey, and has also been repeatedly hit by the Turkish army.
The PKK has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984. Turkey, along with the European Union and the United States, considers the group a terrorist organization.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in December 2024, the new Syrian government announced that the opposition groups that participated in the overthrow of the Assad regime would be united under the leadership of the country's new Ministry of Defense.
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