Syria reaches deal with Kurdish S.D.F. after government advance

President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government struck an agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after Syrian forces pushed into Kurdish-held northeastern Syria and reached the outskirts of Raqqa, the newspaper reported. After months of stalled negotiations, the S.D.F. leader Mazloum Abdi agreed to a deal that the report said looked like a surrender: the S.D.F.

lost previously won concessions, including the right to join the Syrian military as distinct battalions, and ceded control of Syria’s gas and oil fields. Kurdish leaders accused government forces of violating the cease-fire and again called for decentralization. The agreement reshapes regional leverage: the Kurds had relied on U.S.

backing and control of energy resources, while the Trump administration has embraced Mr. al-Sharaa, hosted him at the White House and waived sanctions. American officials helped broker the cease-fire, but the paper said Kurds received neither the military support nor the international outcry they had hoped for; S.D.F.

spokesman Siyamend Ali said the United States had effectively abandoned them. Analysts quoted in the report called the deal a major territorial, military and political win for Mr. al-Sharaa and warned the arrangement is fragile. The S.D.F.

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World, Syrian Democratic Forces, Ahmed Al-sharaa, Syria, Raqqa, Oil Fields