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A Kurdish-led and US-backed alliance is organizing for the first time talks in Damascus on the future of northern Syria under its control, an official said Friday. alliance. The Syrian democratic forces control most of the country, after a series of Russian-backed victories over rebel groups in recent months has seen the government reaffirm its authority in the south.
SDF political wing delegation discusses future According to an official source of the Alliance, a delegation of the Syrian Democratic Council is making an official first visit to Damascus at the beginning of the year. Government invitation. "We hope that the discussions on the situation in the north will be positive," Darfur told AFP
. humanitarian aid, adding that they were detained "without preconditions".
The SDF controls over 27% of Syrian territory, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. Rights, a British-based surveillance group
It not only has Kurdish-majority areas along the northern border with Turkey but also the Raqa-dominated Arab city, made infamous by the Islamic State group as its former Syrian capital.
The homeless captured the city with the support of a US-led coalition last October in their most important victory of the war.
The SDF lost the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria. the rebels, who also threatened to seize other territories held by the alliance in the west of the Euphrates.
Only Washington's intervention prevented Turkish troops from seizing the hard-won Manbij city from the FSD.
Ankara Allian led by the Kurds this terrorist group because of its links with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), an outlaw rebel group that has been fighting Turkish troops since 1984.
Damascus also sees Kurdish aspirations with suspicion and at the end of May, Assad threatened to use force if necessary to prevent the separation of areas held by SDS.
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