The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced a new agreement with the country's central government on Friday intended to stabilise a ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting and to lay out the steps toward integration between the two sides.
Under the agreement, security forces affiliated with the Syrian Ministry of Interior would go into the cities of al-Hassakeh and Qamishli in the Kurdish heartland, which they had previously been barred from entering, and the process of integrating SDF and government forces would begin.
