SDF led by Kurdo agrees to integrate with government forces

An alliance of the militia led by Kurdo that controls the northeast of Syria has agreed an agreement to integrate all military and civil institutions in the Syrian state, says the presidency of the country.

The agreement says that Syrian democratic forces backed by the United States (SDF) will stop hostilities and deliver control of border stalls, airport and vital fields of oil and gas.

It also recognizes the Kurdish minority as “an integral part of the Syrian State” and guarantees “the rights of all Syrians to representation and participation in the political process.”

SDF Mazloum Abdi commander called the agreement, who signed together with the interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa, a “real opportunity to build a new Syria.”

“We are committed to building a better future to guarantee the rights of all Syrians and fulfill their aspirations of peace and dignity,” he wrote in X on Monday night.

The agreement represents an important step towards Sharaa’s objective to unite the fractured country after his Islamist Sunni group led the rebel offensive that defeated President Bashar Al-Assad in December.

The size of that challenge has been clear due to the recent violence in Syria Occidental, where attacks against security forces by Assad’s loyal ones caused reprisals in which, according to reports, more than 1,000 civilians were killed, most of them members of the Assad minority Alauito sect.

The agreement could also reduce the SDF conflict with the old Syrian and Backed Turkish Syrian rebel factions allied to the Government, which are trying to get the alliance out of the areas near the border.

The SDF, which has tens of thousands of well -armed and well -trained combatants, was not aligned with the Assad regime or the opposition during the 13 -year civil war of the country.

He currently controls more than 46,000 km2 (18,000 square miles) of territory in Northeast, where he defeated the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 with the help of a coalition led by the United States.

The SDF plays an important role in the Autonomous Administration of Syria North and Eastern (Aanes), which governs the region also known by the Kurds as Red.

Around 10,000 combatants of whether they are being arrested in prisons administered by SDF extended throughout the region and about 46,000 people linked to IS, mostly women and children, are carried out in several camps.

Since Assad’s fall, the SDF warned that the attacks of features backed by Turkish force him to divert the fighters to protect prisons and pave the way for a resurgence of IS.

The Turkish government sees the largest militia in the SDF, the Kurdish people protection units (YPG), as a terrorist organization. He says that the YPG is an extension of the forbidden group of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that fought an insurgency in Türkiye for decades, but whose imprisoned leader recently declared a stop the fire.

There were no immediate comments from Türkiye in response to Monday’s agreement.

Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region to horcajadas on the borders of Türkiye, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They constitute the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but have never obtained a permanent nation state.

The Kurds of Syria, which constitute 10% of the population, were suppressed and denied basic rights during the Assad family rule.