CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) – The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government on Monday to join Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday.
Photos showed interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi shaking hands in Damascus on the agreement that provides for SDF-controlled civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria to be integrated with the state.
The accord came at a critical moment as Sharaa grapples with the fallout from mass killings of Alawite minority members in western Syria – violence that he said on Monday threatened his effort to unite Syria after 14 years of conflict.
In December, insurgents toppled the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the country’s Alawite minority who fled to longtime supporter Russia.
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