Kurdish-led forces in Syria dissolve after merging with the army
Group’s leader calls for ‘preservation of our right to education in the Kurdish language’. The head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which spearheaded the fight in Syria against the ISIL (ISIS) armed group, has announced its dissolution as part of a deal struck with the government in Damascus.
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- Fact 1: But after the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Washington formed close ties with the new government in Damascus, led by interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the opposition forces that overthrew al-Assad.
- Fact 2: Mazloum Abdi, foreground, leader of the SDF, arrives at the presidential palace in Damascus on August 25, 2026, to announce the armed group’s dissolution [Bakr Alkasem/AFP]“Today we stand at a historic moment in which we turn an important page in Syria’s history and begin to open a new page titled peace, stability and reconstruction,” Abdi was quoted as saying by the state news agency, SANA.
Group’s leader calls for ‘preservation of our right to education in the Kurdish language’. The head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which spearheaded the fight in Syria against the ISIL (ISIS) armed group, has announced its dissolution as part of a deal struck with the government in Damascus.
“We announce today the end of the mission of the Syrian Democratic Forces and declare, with full responsibility, their dissolution as an independent military force,” Mazloum Abdi said on Tuesday evening in a televised speech at the presidential palace in Damascus. Which Kurdish groups is the US are rallying to fight Iran? US removes Syria from ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ list Syria ‘shakes off’ past with removal from US ‘terror’ list, says al-Sharaa Syria’s economy poised for improvement after US sanctions removal The SDF once controlled a de facto autonomous zone in Syria’s northeast.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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