Overview

• State media says the deal covers the Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafieh districts after fighting that left one internal security officer dead and others, including civilians, injured.
• The Defence Ministry says its redeployment along front lines with the SDF is intended to prevent attacks rather than launch new operations.
• SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami denies targeting checkpoints, says the group has no forces in the two districts, and calls for lifting what he describes as a siege after government factions attempted entry with tanks.
• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports communications cuts in the districts and surrounding by army reinforcements.
• U.S. envoy Tom Barrack and CENTCOM chief Admiral Brad Cooper met SDF commander Mazloum Abdi to press faster execution of the March integration deal, which remains stalled.