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The Syrian government said it has achieved an agreement to integrate the Kurdish armed faction into state institutions, a significant breakthrough for interim administration because it seeks to expand its control over a broken country.
The fate of Syrian democratic forces, which is estimated to have more than 60,000 fighters on its payroll and controls the northeast line, was one of the critical challenges for the efforts of new authorities to unify the Arab nation and its security forces.
The agreement, signed after Monday's session between the interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and the leader of SDF Mazloum ABDI, requires a nationwide ceasefire and the merger of the SDF civil and military wings in the US, the Syrian Presidency said.
If the agreement was paid, it would bring a larger area Syria Under the control of Sharaa government, including vital oil and gas fields in the northeast, and border crossings. The agreement should also reduce the risk of greater violence and alleviate the long -term friction point between Turkey and the US.
Given that he led dictator Bashara Al-Assad, who overthrew dictator Bashar Al-Assad, Sharaa tries to persuade numerous armed factions to merge into the national security forces. But the fragility of the nation was underlined Sectarian violence Last week, which was launched by attacks on government security forces of Loyal Assad.
Hundreds of people, mostly civilians, were killed in violence around the coastal cities of Latakia and a cake, where they are home to many of the alawit sect that Assads belongs to.
For years, the SDF has dominated the tract of the northeast, where he was armed and trained after Washington called him his main local partner in the fight against ISIS.
The Kurdish movement used the chaos of the Civil War in Syria to take control of about 20 % of the Arab nation. His presence in the border region with Turkey, however, has long disintegrated Ankara, which considers militants to be extended by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a separatist group that fought against the Turkish state of four ten and tenthins.
Since 2016, Turkey has launched at least three offensive to move the SDF back from its borders, and armed and trained Syrian factions to face the Kurdish militants.
After the fall of Assad, Turkey – which appeared as The most influential foreign actor In Syria-talked that the dissolution of the SDF and that his non-Syrian warriors leave the country or face the threat of other military attacks.
The Turkish Syrian factions, which are associated with Sharaa's government, met the SDF in the north after the collapse of the Assad regime at the end of last year.
The SDF agreement should also alleviate Western concerns about ISIS trying to use a security vacuum to mount the revival of jihad activities.
The SDF operates prisons and camps that hold tens of thousands of ISIS and their families, and concerns about the safety of the facility grew among western officials if the Kurdish militants were involved in larger fighting.
The notice of agreement between Sharaa and SDF comes 10 days after Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned by the founder of PKK, issued a statement calling on his group Dissolve and put your hands.
The terms of the agreement should be carried out by the end of the year.
