Kurdish-led SDF and Syrian government reach new agreement to stabilise ceasefire

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced a new agreement with the country’s central government on Friday intended to stabilise a ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting and to lay out the steps toward integration between the two sides.

Under the agreement, security forces affiliated with the Syrian Ministry of Interior would go into the cities of al-Hassakeh and Qamishli in the Kurdish heartland, which they had previously been barred from entering, and the process of integrating SDF and government forces would begin.

This would include the formation of a new military unit comprising three brigades from the SDF, in addition to the formation of a brigade of SDF fighters within a government brigade in Aleppo province.

Local institutions in the Kurdish-led government of northeast Syria, which has operated as a de facto autonomous zone for years, and their employees would be integrated into state institutions.

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