Overview
- The government says its troops took control of Tabqa and the country’s largest Euphrates dam and seized two nearby oilfields.
- State media also reported the capture of the Tabqa military airbase after advances that had already brought Deir Hafer and Maskana under government control east of Aleppo.
- The SDF said Damascus violated withdrawal arrangements and fought its units around Dibsi Afnan, while Kurdish authorities imposed a curfew in parts of Raqqa province.
- U.S. Central Command publicly urged Syrian forces to stop offensive operations between Aleppo and Tabqa.
- Displacement continued from newly contested towns and Aleppo, as decrees recognizing Kurdish language and Newroz failed to break the deadlock over integrating SDF institutions into the state.