Overview
- An official Syrian presidency statement announced a mutual understanding with the SDF, granting four days to present a detailed plan to integrate forces and institutions and to implement legal cultural and language rights for Kurds under Decree 13.
- Under the outlined terms, Syrian troops would stay outside the centers of Hasakah and Qamishli, Kurdish villages would be policed only by local security forces, and SDF military and security units would fold into the defense and interior ministries alongside civil bodies joining the government structure.
- The presidency said Mazloum Abdi would propose nominees for deputy defense minister and Hasakah governor and put forward names for parliament and state employment, while separate reporting alleged he withdrew from the Damascus deal under PKK pressure and rejected such offers.
- On the ground, clashes and troop movements continued around Hasakah with new Syrian army reinforcements reported, the SDF pledged to defend its areas, and security forces hunted ISIS escapees from Al‑Shaddadi as a standoff lingered over control of a prison near Raqqa.
- President Donald Trump called President Ahmad Al‑Sharaa urging an end to fighting, with both leaders affirming Kurdish rights and Syrian unity against ISIS, as a Turkish presidential adviser warned the understandings could be used to buy time and insisted PKK‑linked elements cannot be integrated.