The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia that allied with the United States to definitively topple the Islamic State “caliphate” in 2017, announced on Thursday that it had formally integrated into the Syrian national armed forces, accepting the leadership of President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The integration completes the commitment the SDF made in January with the government in Damascus – run by members of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which itself has been dissolved into the Syrian armed forces – to accept granting the state a monopoly on military power and preserve federal authority over Syrian Kurdistan, or…
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