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2021-04-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Russia Mediates between Syrian Regime, Kurds, US offers to help
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Pro-regime National Defense Forces and the Kurdish internal security services, aka Asayish, have reached a ceasefire in northeastern Syria’s Qamishli city as part of a Russian-sponsored mediation.
Russian military police succeeded in mediating the ceasefire agreement between the National Defense Forces and members of Arab tribes and Asayish fighters in Qamishli, sources told Sputnik News Agency.
The agreement reached on Wednesday night stipulated a complete ceasefire and the withdrawal of fighters from the streets along with Russian patrols in the city’s streets, the sources said.
"Kurdish elements tried to advance with an armored vehicle towards a neighborhood in the city and put concrete barriers before the arrival of Russian forces," said Mohammed al-Taei, a National Defense Forces member.
"Their attempts were thwarted and they were forced to return to their bases," he added.
We are committed to the agreement and did not shoot at their checkpoints "as they claim," he told dpa.
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a source close to the Kurdish units said elements from the National Defense Forces violated the ceasefire and targeted Asayish forces, adding that they fired mortar shells on a neighborhood mostly inhabited by Kurds.
Kurdish security forces said Wednesday that regime-allied fighters killed one of their personnel in an overnight attack on a checkpoint in Qamishli, of which both groups share control.
Qamishli clashes resume, US says ready to help de-escalate
[Rudaw] Clashes resumed between regime fighters and Asayish security forces of the Kurdish administration in Qamishli, northeast Syria on Friday morning, following the killing of a tribal leader the night before. A United States general said the US is ready to help de-escalate after a Russian attempt failed.
Sheikh Hayyes al-Jaryyan, a leader from the Bani Saba’a tribe, was killed late Thursday night. He was shot by a sniper after leaving a meeting seeking to find a solution to end days of festivities in Qamishli, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Jaryyan was reportedly close to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and his death is being blamed on the pro-regime National Defence Forces (NDF).
Clashes broke out between the NDF and the Asayish on Tuesday night in Qamishli, which lies within areas administered by Kurdish forces, known as Rojava, but the regime maintains pockets of control in the city. Two children and a member of the Asayish have been killed.
Russia mediated a ceasefire on Wednesday that would see Russian troops deployed to areas where fighting took place, but it is not a permanent agreement. "This is merely a truce, not a lasting solution," said Basman al-Assaf, head of the United Syria Association, a political organization in Rojava.
Early Friday morning, NDF snipers began firing on civilian houses in central al-Tai neighbourhood, the North Press Agency reported. Clashes have also broken out on the western side of the same neighbourhood, according to ANHA news.
The Asayish had taken control of parts of al-Tai earlier this week, the Observatory reported, noting "the failure of the Russian-sponsored negotiations to reach a solution."
General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US CENTCOM, said the US is ready to help. "We’ll do anything we can to help in de-escalating these festivities," he said in presser on Thursday, in answer to a question from Rudaw’s Roj Eli Zalla.
He added that he expects such festivities to continue. "I’m not sure that they’re going to go away, particularly as pro-regime forces continue to push to the east. I think they may even rise over the coming weeks and months. We’ll be prepared to deal with that at every level. You prefer to deal with it at the diplomatic level, if you can, or through talking. But we’ll be prepared to assist our SDF partners."
Kurdish and regime forces have largely avoided major confrontations during Syria’s decade of conflict. Syrian forces were deployed to areas along the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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as part of a ceasefire to end a Ottoman Turkish military incursion in 2019. The Kurdish administration has tried to negotiate with Damascus to ensure the future of the autonomous region they carved out during the conflict, but talks have failed. 
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