US EditionTrump’s Bet on Syria’s New Leader Faces Pivotal Point
Damascus demands Kurdish forces merge into state security amid ceasefire; U.S. shifts policy while 150 Islamic State detainees were transferred to Iraq, military said.
- Jan 22- The Syrian government retook swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Kurdish forces, consolidating President Ahmed al-Sharaa's rule nearly 14 months after Bashar al-Assad was toppled.
- Under a January 20 ceasefire, Damascus gave the Syrian Democratic Forces four days to plan merging their remaining enclaves in Hasakah and demanded full integration with state security.
- Government troops seized Kurdish-run Aleppo districts, crossed the Euphrates River, and rapidly captured Raqqa and Deir al-Zor provinces, including Syria's biggest oil fields, a major hydroelectric dam, jails, and the al-Hol camp housing 24,000 relatives of ISIS prisoners.
- Mazloum Abdi, SDF commander, said the Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen back to Kurdish-majority areas, while a 19 January meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa ended in stark disagreement, risking renewed conflict.
- The shift could free thousands of incarcerated jihadis and may see 7,000 detainees moved out of Syria after U.S. transfers amid prisons and detention camps security concerns.
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AlKhaleej TodayUS pressure and secret talks paved way for Syria’s push into Kurdish-held northeast
DAMASCUS, Jan 23 — The Syrian government’s rapid takeover of territory long held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces took shape in a string of high-stakes meetings in Damascus, Paris and Iraq earlier this month, nine sources briefed on the closed-door summits told Reuters.The accounts, not previously reported and shared on condition of anonymity, showed that the US did not stand in the way of an operation that has radically altered Syri…
The West stays silent as its Kurdish allies face attacks by Syria’s ‘reformed’ Islamist government
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Syrian Kurds Face New Challenges Amid Power Shifts in the Middle East
Syrian Kurdish forces have suffered significant territorial losses to government troops under President Ahmed al-Sharaa, amidst reshaping power dynamics. Originating as a stateless ethnic group post-Ottoman Empire, Kurds now face shifting alliances and political challenges in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, navigating autonomy and integration issues.
Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader faces pivotal point
President Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader is facing a pivotal moment, as Kurdish forces are under attack from President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces in the northeast and facing growing pressure to fold into the central government. Al-Sharaa’s government and the Kurdish-led militias, collectively known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), reached a ceasefire over the…
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