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A fragile federation: Will Syria's SDF integration deal unravel?

Clashes in Aleppo between Syrian forces and the SDF highlight the growing risk of new flashpoints as efforts to implement an integration deal continue

Cian Ward
14 October, 2025
Barrack is trying to juggle US support for the SDF with its close relationship with Turkey
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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US envoy Tom Barrack visits Hasakah to follow up Syria-SDF deal

The New Arab Staff
09 October, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
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The future of northeast Syria: Will SDF-tribal tensions explode?

Cian Ward
04 September, 2025
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Syria Kurds say they thwarted escape bid from camp for IS families

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 September, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
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How Syria's elections could entrench, not democratise, power

Youssef Al Ibrahim
01 September, 2025
Mazloum Abdi (Kobani), who heads the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks during an interview with AFP on October 10, 2023 in Syria's northern city of Al-Hasakeh. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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SDF wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria: leader

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 February, 2025
Afrin Kurds [Getty]
Afrin
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Syria: 70,000 Kurds return to Afrin since fall of Assad

The New Arab Staff
29 January, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
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Why fighting is raging in north Syria between the SNA and SDF

Paul Iddon
21 January, 2025
Turkey and the Western-backed SDF are on the verge of all-out war
Syria
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US, French troops could help secure Syria's northern border

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
09 January, 2025
Germany, France FMs in Syria [Getty]
Post-Assad Syria
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Germany in push for Syria sanctions relief, Turkey threatens SDF

The New Arab Staff
08 January, 2025
Erdogan's statement is a warning to Kurdish forces in the north of Syria
Syria
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Erdogan says Turkey will 'intervene' to stop Syria split

The New Arab Staff
07 January, 2025
Rebel roulette: Turkey's gamble on Syria's opposition offensive
Syria
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Rebel roulette: Turkey's gamble on Syrian opposition offensive

Benjamin Fève

Benjamin Fève

03 December, 2024
Our dream of a Assad-free Syria has returned with Aleppo advance
Syria
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Our dream of an Assad-free Syria has returned with regime defeat

Leila al-Shami

Leila al-Shami

02 December, 2024
The SDF receive training and funding by the US
Syria
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Kurdish forces kill 15 Turkish-backed Syrian fighters in north

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 November, 2024
Syria
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Syria Kurds release 50 IS-linked detainees: official

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 September, 2024
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British special forces investigated for Syria war crime

The New Arab Staff
06 March, 2024
Zagros Hiwa
Turkish army
MENA
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Turkey understated recent Iraqi Kurdistan losses: PKK spox

Dana Taib Menmy
28 December, 2023
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Autonomous Administration
MENA
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Syria's Kurds to begin trials for IS detainees

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 June, 2023
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Syria
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Why Syria's Kurds and HTS are offering to host refugees

Paul Iddon
31 May, 2023
The Kurdish-led autonomous administration and the associated SDF control most of northeastern Syria [Getty]
Syria
MENA
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Syria Kurds seek talks with Assad amid Arab normalisation

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 April, 2023
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Kurds allege discrimination in Syrian earthquake response

William Christou
23 February, 2023