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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Syria s leader signs deal to integrate kurdish forces into new regime - What They Never Told You

Syria’s interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (right) shakes hands with Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, in Damascus on Monday - (AP)

Syria’s interim leader has struck a deal to merge the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish group that controls the nation’s northeast, into the army and achieve a nationwide ceasefire.

The breakthrough agreement gives the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa control over most of Syria following days of clashes and targeted killing of civilians in the war-torn country.

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