Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced that he had reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the integration of his troops into Syria's military and security forces.
Mr. Abdi, who heads the powerful Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), had met Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus last week, along with U.S. envoy Tom Barrack and U.S. commander Brad Cooper.
While the Kurdish forces — who control large swathes of Syria's oil-rich northeast — had signed an agreement with the new Syrian authorities in March to merge
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