Syria’s brand-new leaders revealed Tuesday that they had actually gotten to a contract with the nation’s rebel teams on their dissolution and assimilation under the support ministry.
Absent from the conference were reps of the US-backed, Kurdish- led pressures that manage swathes of Syria’s northeast.
The conference in between the rebel teams and Syria’s brand-new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa “ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all the groups and their integration under the supervision of the ministry of defence”, claimed a declaration lugged by the SANA information company and the authorities’ Telegram account.
The news comes simply over 2 weeks after head of state Bashar al-Assad got away Syria, complying with a lightning offending headed by Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) team.
On Sunday Sharaa, long understood by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, had actually claimed the brand-new authorities would certainly “absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control”.
That likewise put on the Kurdish- led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), he claimed.
Last week, the armed forces principal of HTS informed AFP that Kurdish- held locations would certainly be incorporated under the brand-new management, which “Syria will not be divided”.
Thirteen years of civil battle in Syria has actually left over half a million individuals dead and fragmented the nation right into areas of impact regulated by various armed teams backed by local and global powers.
SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami informed AFP the inquiry of his team’s assimilation right into the nationwide militaries “should be discussed directly”.
He did not reject the opportunity, claiming that doing so would certainly reinforce “the whole of Syria”.
Shami included that his pressures choose “dialogue with Damascus to resolve all questions”.
– ‘Economic take advantage of’ –
Turkey has actually long held connections with HTS, and experts claim that considering that the Islamists took control of Syria, both sides have actually looked for to benefit from the connection.
Ankara charges the People’s Protection Units (YPG)– the major element of the SDF– of being associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has actually incomed a decades-long revolt on Turkish dirt.
Earlier this month, a Syria expert that suggests Western mediators in Turkey claimed: “The Turks would like to push HTS into striking at the Kurds but HTS doesn’t want to get involved.”
Although Ankara’s function in Assad’s topple had actually been “overstated”, Turkey currently has “real economic leverage” many thanks to the 900-kilometre (560-mile) boundary it shows Syria, the resource claimed on problem of privacy.
How the scenario creates will certainly likewise rely on United States President- choose Donald Trump, that takes workplace on January 20 yet has actually currently announced that “Turkey is going to hold the key to Syria”.
Since late November, the SDF has actually been fighting Turkey- backed competitors that introduced an offensive on Kurdish- held locations at the exact same time as HTS’s anti-Assad project.
On Tuesday, the SDF claimed in a declaration its competitors were salarying lethal battle to the eastern of the crucial city of Manbij, with 16 fatalities in its rankings.
Syria’s Kurds, lengthy suppressed under Assad’s policy, saw a possibility throughout the battle to take a semi-autonomous area in the northeast.
They showed a crucial ally to the US-led union fighting the Islamist State team.
Since Assad’s ouster on December 8, they have actually released many declarations inviting his failure, and likewise produced ask for discussion with the brand-new management in Damascus and with Turkey.
In Syria’s northeast, both the Kurdish flag and the three-star independence-era flag utilized by the brand-new authorities can be seen.
Meanwhile, Syria’s brand-new international preacher Assaad Hassan al-Shibani required to X Tuesday night to alert Iran versus “propagating chaos” in Syria and contacted it to regard Syrian sovereignty.
On Monday, Iran’s international ministry had actually claimed it had none straight call with Syria’s brand-new leaders yet contacted them to not ley Syria “become a refuge for terrorism,” though it did likewise phone call to “preserve the sovereignty and integrity” of the nation.
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