Syria’s new government has agreed to an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Syria’s defense ministry said Tuesday. The U.S.-backed SDF, which controls a quarter of Syria’s territory, had recently clashed with forces loyal to interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led a rebel offensive that ousted former President Bashar al-Assad late last year.
In an in-depth piece for WPR in March, Francisco Serrano examined the complicated post-Assad security landscape in Syria and the challenges of bringing together the country’s various armed factions under a united government force. A deal with the SDF is critical for the new government, he wrote, since the SDF controls much of northeastern Syria’s critical infrastructure, including “airports, border crossings and perhaps most importantly oil wells.”
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