{"id":438688,"date":"2026-01-30T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:34:07","slug":"kurdish-led-sdf-agrees-integration-with-syrian-government-forces-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438688\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish-led SDF agrees integration with Syrian government forces | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">The agreement comes after the SDF lost control swaths of territory to the government forces during weeks of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 30 Jan 202630 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Syria\u2019s Kurdish-led forces have reached a comprehensive agreement with the government to integrate with the Syrian army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The interim government in Damascus has been fighting an offensive in the north of the country against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) over recent weeks as it seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/1\/27\/syrian-army-offensive-overjoys-some-leaves-others-with-existential-fear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consolidate control of the country<\/a> following the overthrow of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/1\/25\/syria-agrees-to-extend-ceasefire-with-sdf-for-15-more-days\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ceasefire<\/a> over the past week or so has developed into an agreement for a phased integration of the Kurdish military forces into the army, according to an SDF statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, Syrian state TV confirmed the agreement, reporting that government officials said it would be implemented immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The army has seized swaths of northern and northeastern territory in the last three weeks from the SDF in a rapid turn of events that has consolidated the leadership of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, after months-long talks between the sides failed to merge the fighters and Kurdish political entities into central institutions.<\/p>\n<p>More to come \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The agreement comes after the SDF lost control swaths of territory to the government forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,129,3,1207,452,453],"class_list":["post-438688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-syria","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}