The deal for the Syrian Democratic Forces to integrate with al-Sharaa’s Syrian government puts an end to the last major armed faction from the civil war. What now seems likely is that al-Sharaa will direct the army’s attention towards Suwayda province.
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Syria’s Kurds have signed a comprehensive deal to integrate their military and civilian institutions with President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government in Damascus, ending weeks of bitter fighting between the two sides.
The agreement, announced on Friday, will in effect lead to the end of more than a decade of self-rule by the Kurds over large parts of northern Syria if implemented in full.
And it will bring Sharaa a step closer to uniting the fractured country after 14 years of bitter civil war, after having struggled to assert control and appeal to minorities wary of his Islamist rule.
Under the terms of the deal, government security forces that had amassed in the country’s north would pull back and interior ministry forces would enter the cities of Hassakeh and Qamishli — areas deep in the Kurdish heartland they had previously been barred from entering.
Kurdish bodies will be gradually integrated into the national military and government, according to statements from Damascus and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
This will include the formation of a military division comprising three brigades of Kurdish fighters, as well as one brigade of Kurdish fighters that will sit within a government division in northern Aleppo province.
The Kurdish-led civilian administration in north-east Syria, which has run the enclave autonomously for years, will be integrated into state institutions along with its employees.
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The deal for the Syrian Democratic Forces to integrate with al-Sharaa’s Syrian government puts an end to the last major armed faction from the civil war. What now seems likely is that al-Sharaa will direct the army’s attention towards Suwayda province.
Syria’s Kurds have signed a comprehensive deal to integrate their military and civilian institutions with President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government in Damascus, ending weeks of bitter fighting between the two sides.
The agreement, announced on Friday, will in effect lead to the end of more than a decade of self-rule by the Kurds over large parts of northern Syria if implemented in full.
And it will bring Sharaa a step closer to uniting the fractured country after 14 years of bitter civil war, after having struggled to assert control and appeal to minorities wary of his Islamist rule.
Under the terms of the deal, government security forces that had amassed in the country’s north would pull back and interior ministry forces would enter the cities of Hassakeh and Qamishli — areas deep in the Kurdish heartland they had previously been barred from entering.
Kurdish bodies will be gradually integrated into the national military and government, according to statements from Damascus and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
This will include the formation of a military division comprising three brigades of Kurdish fighters, as well as one brigade of Kurdish fighters that will sit within a government division in northern Aleppo province.
The Kurdish-led civilian administration in north-east Syria, which has run the enclave autonomously for years, will be integrated into state institutions along with its employees.