Overview
- The deal orders front-line pullbacks and allows Interior Ministry security forces to deploy into Hasakah and Qamishli for the first time in years.
- The military track creates a new division built from three SDF brigades and a separate Kobani brigade under Aleppo’s command, with a Syrian official saying fighters will join as individuals under Defence Ministry authority.
- Administrative bodies from the Kurdish-led northeast are to merge into state institutions, with provisions for Kurdish civil and educational rights and the return of displaced residents.
- The announcement follows a January offensive that cost the SDF most of its territory, with continued skirmishes and reported casualties underscoring a fragile truce.
- Washington brokered the agreement and hailed it, a senior Syrian official said implementation starts immediately, and unanswered issues include control of remaining border crossings and ongoing transfers of ISIS detainees to Iraq.