CAIRO (Reuters) -The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, has signed a deal agreeing to integrate into Syria's new state ...

In his first official comment following the signing of the accord, Abdi said in a post on X that the deal represents a "real opportunity to build a new Syria." He said the SDF was working together ...

The government in Damascus, led by Islamist former rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, had been calling on the SDF and other armed groups that formed during the 13-year civil war to integrate under the ...

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If we want to defuse the fundamentally unsustainable detention system in northeast Syria, and prevent ]IS] from rejuvenating, something new is needed.” An SDF source told MEE that the agreement ...

Of note, the Damascus-affiliated security forces have not clashed with the SDF. On the contrary, discussions are underway between the new Syrian leadership and the Kurdish administration in Rojava ...

Now, the SDF faces calls by the new Damascus administration that ousted Assad in December to merge into newly-minted state security forces. Turkey is one of the new Syrian administration's main ...

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“We consider this agreement a real opportunity to build a new Syria that embraces all its components and ensures good neighborliness,” SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi said in a statement on ...