The Kurdish SDF agrees to integrate with government forces

The Kurdish police union, which controls the northeastern Syria, has agreed a deal to integrate all military and civic institutions in the Syrian state, the country’s presidency said.

The agreement states that US -backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will end the hostilities and convey control over border posts of the region, airport and vital oil and gas deposits.

He also recognizes the Kurdish minority as “an integral part of the Syrian state” and guarantees “the rights of all Syrians to represent and participate in the political process.”

SDF Commander Maslum Abdi called the deal he signed with temporary President Ahmed al -Sharaa, “a real opportunity to build a new Syria.”

“We are committed to building a better future, which guarantees the rights of all Syrians and fulfills their aspirations for peace and dignity,” he wrote on Monday night.

The deal is a major step towards the goal of Sharaa to unite the destroyed country after his Sunni Islamist group led the rebel offensive, which was overthrown by President Bashar al -Assad in December.

The size of this challenge was made clear by the recent violence in Western Syria, where the attacks on the assistance of Assad’s Loyalty Loyalty caused repression that reported that more than 1000 civilians were killed, most of them members of the Alavita sect of Assad’s minority.

The deal may also de -escalate the SDF conflict with the neighboring turkey and the Syrian -supported Syrian former rebel factions related to the government trying to push the union from areas near the border.

SDF, which has tens of thousands of well-armed and well-trained fighters, was not filed with either the Assad regime or the opposition during the 13-year Civil War in the country.

He currently controls over 46,000 square kilometers (18,000 square meters) of the Northeast, where he defeated the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 with the help of a US -led coalition.

SDF plays a major role in the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria (Aanes), which also runs the region known to the Kurds as Rojava.

About 10,000 are detained fighters in prisons run by SDF, distributed in the region, and about 46,000 other people -related people, mainly women and children, are held in several camps.

Following Assad’s fall, SDF warned that the attacks of Turks -backed factions forced him to divert fighters from prisons and make the way to resume.

The Turkish government is considering the largest militia in SDF, Kurdish National Defense Units (YPG) as a terrorist organization. It states that YPG is an extension of the forbidden group of Kurdistan Workers’s Party (PKK), which for decades has done a rebellion in Turkey, but whose closed leader recently announced the ceasefire.

There was no immediate comment from Turkey in response to the agreement on Monday.

Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountain region covering the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but have never received a permanent nation -state.

The Kurds in Syria, which make up about 10% of the population, have been suppressed and refused fundamental rights during the reign of the Assad family.