The Syrian government has agreed a new ceasefire deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), further consolidating the rule of president Ahmed al-Sharaa and avoiding a bloody conflict in the country’s northeast.
The new agreement will see the Kurdish forces phased into the state, after the SDF lost huge swathes of territory to government forces in the past two weeks - marking the most dramatic shift in Syria’s control map since longtime ruler Bashar al Assad was deposed in late 2024.
