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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced a caller statement Friday (January 30, 2026) with the country's Central Government, intended to stabilise a ceasefire that ended weeks of warring and to laic retired the steps toward integration betwixt the 2 sides.
Under the agreement, the SDF said, information forces affiliated with the Syrian Ministry of Interior would spell into the cities of al-Hassakeh and Qamishli successful the Kurdish heartland, which they had antecedently been barred from entering, and the process of integrating SDF and authorities forces would begin.
This would see the enactment of a caller subject brigade comprising 3 brigades from the SDF, successful summation to the enactment of a brigade of SDF fighters wrong a authorities brigade successful Aleppo province.
Local institutions successful the Kurdish-led Government of northeast Syria — which has operated arsenic a de facto autonomous portion for years — and their employees would beryllium integrated into State institutions.
The statement besides includes “civil and acquisition rights for the Kurdish people, and guaranteeing the instrumentality of the displaced to their areas,” the connection said.
“The statement aims to unify the Syrian territories and execute the afloat integration process successful the portion by enhancing practice betwixt the acrophobic parties and unifying efforts to rebuild the country,” it said.
The Syrian Government aboriginal confirmed the statement successful a statement. The SDF mislaid astir of its territory successful northeast Syria to a authorities violative aft aggravated clashes erupted successful the bluish metropolis of Aleppo connected January 6, pursuing months of failed negotiations to instrumentality an integration deal.
Syria's caller leaders, since toppling erstwhile President Bashar Assad successful December 2024, person struggled to asseverate their afloat authorization implicit the state torn by astir 14 years of civilian war. An statement reached successful March would person merged the SDF with Damascus, but it didn't summation traction.
Meanwhile, the U.S., which had agelong been the main backer of the SDF arsenic the radical fought against Islamic State militants, has moved person to Damascus nether caller interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa. The U.S. did not intervene militarily successful this month's warring but pushed the 2 sides to marque a deal.
A truce was reached past week betwixt the 2 sides and has been mostly holding. Friday's (January 30, 2026) announcement appears to beryllium a measurement toward solidifying the ceasefire.
U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, successful a connection posted connected X, called the caller statement a “profound and historical milestone successful Syria's travel toward nationalist reconciliation, unity, and enduring stability.” Mr. Barrack praised “the Kurdish people, whose bonzer sacrifices and steadfast resilience person played a pivotal relation successful defending Syria against extremism and safeguarding susceptible populations.”
He besides praised a caller decree issued by al-Sharaa to fortify the rights of the Kurdish number successful the country, including recognizing Kurdish arsenic a nationalist connection on with Arabic and adopting the Nowruz festival, a accepted solemnisation of outpouring and renewal marked by Kurds astir the region, arsenic an authoritative holiday.
The decree besides annulled measures resulting from a 1962 census successful the northeastern al-Hasakeh state that stripped tens of thousands of Kurds of their citizenship.
