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SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi Announces Preliminary Deal to Join Syrian Army

This is Beirut, 17/10 13:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, has announced a “preliminary agreement” with the Syrian government to integrate SDF fighters into a unified military structure within the Syrian army, according to Al Hadath. In an interview with the Associated Press (AP) on Thursday, Abdi discussed what could be a ...

Syrian Kurdish Leader says Reached first Deal on Merging Forces with Regular Army

This is Beirut, 13/10 11:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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  Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the integration of his troops into Syria's military and security forces. Abdi, who heads the powerful Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), had met Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus last week, ...

Syria Announces 'Comprehensive Ceasefire' with Kurds After Clashes

This is Beirut, 07/10 22:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Syria announced a comprehensive ceasefire with Kurdish forces after a meeting on Tuesday between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi that followed deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. Syria's authorities, who took power last year after overthrowing Bashar al-Assad, have rejected Kurdish demands for a ...

Syrian Kurdish Forces Say Five Members Killed in IS Attack

This is Beirut, 25/09 17:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that an attack on Thursday by Islamic State group militants in Syria's east killed five of its members. IS jihadists, once in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the SDF with support from an international ...

Thousands of Syrian Kurds Rally for Decentralization

This is Beirut, 17/09 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Thousands of people in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria rallied Wednesday in support of their autonomous administration and called for decentralization as negotiations with Damascus over the region's future stall. Damascus and Syria's Kurds have been in talks to integrate Kurdish civil and military institutions into the central government ...

Syria Kurds say they Thwarted Escape Bid from Camp for IS Families

This is Beirut, 03/09 14:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group. Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have run camps hosting thousands of suspected jihadists and their families since the jihadist group lost its last territory in ...

Syria Kurds Say Lawmaker Selection Process Undemocratic

This is Beirut, 24/08 11:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria's Kurds on Sunday criticised the upcoming selection of members of a new transitional parliament as undemocratic, after authorities postponed the process for Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and northeast. After toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December, Syria's new authorities dissolved the parliament and adopted a temporary ...

Syria, Kurdish Officials Meet after Paris Talks Canned

This is Beirut, 12/08 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria's foreign minister and a senior official in the country's Kurdish administration have met in Damascus, sources from both sides told AFP on Tuesday, days after the government boycotted talks in France. Damascus had said it would not participate in the Paris talks after the Kurds hosted a meeting last week involving Syria's Druze and Alawite ...

Syria, France, and US Agree to Relaunch Kurdish Integration Talks in Paris

This is Beirut, 25/07 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria, France, and the United States said they agreed Friday to convene "as soon as possible" talks in Paris to integrate the autonomous Kurdish administration into the Syrian state. The Kurds, who control large swathes of northeast Syria, are negotiating with the central government in Damascus on the integration of their civil and military ...

Why No States for the Druze or the Kurds?

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 22/07 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Self-determination in the Middle East is inconsistent. For Muslim Palestinians, statehood is seen as an unfulfilled destiny. Yet for religious minorities like the Druze or ethnic groups like the Kurds, pursuing sovereignty is branded as betrayal or capitulation to imperialism. There’s no clear logic to why Israel should be divided into two ...

PKK Militants Want to Participate in Turkish Politics, Says Top Commander Bese Hozat

This is Beirut, 11/07 18:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Kurdish PKK militants want to return to Turkey and enter democratic politics, one of the group's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the fighters began destroying their arms at a ceremony in Iraq. In an interview with AFP, Bese Hozat, one of the Kurdish militant group's two top leaders, also warned the fragile peace process risked being ...

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