... aspirations for an autonomous region in Syria.
AFahil Abdulbasit Abdulkareem:
Negotiation Dynamics: Rojava's Path Towards Integration with Syria
Syrian Democratic Forces Face New Challenges After Negotiation Setback
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF commander Mazloum Abdi and the Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa most recent
attempt
to negotiate the implementation of the
March 10 agreement
, which took place on January 4, was unsuccessful. According to
reputable sources
in Damascus,...
Syrian interim president has not yet demonstrated any concrete readiness to move toward genuine national reconciliation or genuine dialogue, whether with the SDF or the Druze and Alawites
Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Washington D.C. and met with U.S. President Donald Trump on November 10, 2025. This was an additional step toward strengthening his international power, especially since it came after the UN Security ...
Setting Up the Damascus-Rojava Negotiations
There is cautious optimism about the current negotiations between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government. Under the March 10, 2025
agreement
, which was backed by US mediation and under intense pressure from Turkey, an operational framework has been established to bring the two sides closer and expedite the process of integrating ...
... not directed against the sovereignty of its neighbors (likely a reference to Syria and Iraq).
There is little doubt that a “prospective operation” means preparing for a military campaign against the U.S.-supported “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), whose backbone is formed by the radical left-wing People’s Defense Units (YPG) affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)—Turkey put it on the list of terrorists. This is what Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan
said on May 23
.
Turkey’s ...
... towards advancing greater inter-operability into the digital platforms of Eurasia’s regional groupings such as the EU, the EAEU, ASEAN, RCEP, EFTA, BIMSTEC, SAFTA, GCC.
The platform for regional development banks and funds such as EDB, EIB, ADB, EBRD, SDF, CAF would focus on building project portfolios in the area of digital cooperation/digital connectivity/digital inclusiveness and work to advance digital economic agreements (DEAs) on the basis of the existing digital arrangements concluded by countries ...
... calling for the arrest of McGurk for what they called his collusion with "terrorist groups."
The reason for the investigation and the memorandum is the confessions of Talal Silo, former spokesman for the "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF), which is considered the backbone of the Syrian arm of PKK. General Raymond Thomas, commander of special operations in the U.S. Army in 2017, revealed during a dialogue session on the sidelines of the Aspen Security Conference in Colorado that the ...
