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2025-03-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Syria’s interim president, SDF chief sign landmark deal, HTS killed 1500 through Monday in Alawite area of W. Syria
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[Rudaw] Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) chief Mazloum Abdi signed a landmark agreement on Monday to integrate the SDF into Syria's state institutions.
After a meeting between Sharaa and Abdi, an agreement was reached to "integrate all civil and military institutions in northeast Syria [Rojava] under the administration of the Syrian state, including border crossings, the [Qamishli International] Airport, and oil and gas fields," read a statement by the Syrian Presidency.
The statement emphasized that "the Kurdish community is indigenous to the Syrian state, which ensures this community’s right to citizenship and all of its constitutional rights."
Following a swift offensive, a coalition of rebel groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) - headed by Sharaa - on December 8 toppled the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
regime. Sharaa was in late January appointed as Syria’s interim President.
After his appointment, Sharaa vowed to uphold the rights of all ethnic and religious groups. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the international community has repeatedly censured the new Damascus leadership for its treatment of Syria’s minority groups.
Monday’s agreement is considered a landmark deal since the Kurdish-controlled Rojava had previously rejected centralized rule, insisting on decentralization in post-Assad Syria.
Moreover, the Kurdish National Council (ENKS), an umbrella group of Kurdish opposition parties in Rojava, last week accused the new leadership in Damascus of making unilateral decisions that excluded ethnic and religious communities.
The ENKS and the Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (DAANES) additionally censured a key conference held by Damascus in late February, the National Dialogue Conference, as "exclusionary" for its lacking Kurdish representation. The conference was intended to pave the way for the formation of an inclusive government and the drafting of a constitutional declaration.
The agreement between Sharaa and Abdi further vows to "guarantee the rights of all Syrians to representation and participation in the political process and in all state institutions based on competence, regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds."
It also called for a "ceasefire across all Syrian territories" and effectively pledged the SDF’s "support to the Syrian state in its fight against the remnants of [the] Assad [regime] and all threats to its security and unity."
Recent violence erupted like lava from a volcano in the Alawite-majority coastal areas of western Syria, after Assad loyalists on Thursday launched attacks against security forces affiliated with the new Syrian leadership.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday reported that around 1,500 people - mostly civilians - have been killed in western Syria amid the violence.
At least 973 civilians, many of whom are from the Alawite community - to which Assad also belongs - are among the corpse count, according to the UK-based Observatory. The war monitor added that most of the civilian casualties were killed by government or government-affiliated forces.
The violence prompted widespread condemnation from the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
as well as western and regional countries. For their part, Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...
have expressed support for Syria’s new authorities amid the unrest.
On Monday, Syria’s defense ministry said its forces had pushed the "remnants of the former regime" out of central coastal provinces like Latakia and Tartous and declared victory in their military operations.
The agreement between Sharaa and Abdi also called for "rejecting calls for division, hate speech, and attempts to spread discord among all components of Syrian society," and urged the "return of all displaced Syrians to their towns and villages, ensuring their protection by the Syrian state."
It stipulates that executive committees "should work and seek to implement" the provisions of the agreement "no later than the end of this year."
The following is the full translation of the Syrian Presidency's statement regarding the historic agreement:
Based on a meeting held between President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mr. Mazloum Abdi on Monday, March 10, 2025, the following was agreed upon:
1- Guaranteeing the rights of all Syrians to representation and participation in the political process and all state institutions based on competence, regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds.
2 - The Kurdish community is an indigenous community in the Syrian state, and the Syrian state guarantees its right to citizenship and all its constitutional rights.
3- Ceasefire on all Syrian territories
4- Integrating all civil and military institutions in northeastern Syria into the administration of the Syrian state, including border crossings, the airport, and oil and gas fields.
5- Ensuring the return of all displaced Syrians to their towns and villages and ensuring their protection by the Syrian state.
6- Supporting the Syrian state in its fight against the remnants of Assad and all threats to its security and unity.
7- Rejecting calls for division, hate speech, and attempts to spread discord among all components of Syrian society.
8- The Executive Committees should work and seek to implement the agreement no later than the end of the year.
“THEY GATHERED ALL THE MEN”
Images on social media showed Syrian security forces on pickups and trucks driving past thick black smoke that drifted over the road on their way into the city of Jableh, between Latakia and Tartus.
The interior ministry said on Sunday that government forces were conducting “sweeping operations” in an area of Tartus province to “pursue the remnants of the toppled regime.”
SANA quoted a defense ministry source as saying there were clashes in Tanita village in the same area.
An AFP photographer in Latakia city reported a military convoy entering a neighborhood to search homes.
A Syrian security source earlier said the pace of fighting had slowed around the cities of Latakia, Jablah and Baniyas, while forces searched surrounding mountainous areas where an estimated 5,000 pro-Assad insurgents were hiding.
In Baniyas, a city further south, resident Samir Haidar, 67, told AFP two of his brothers and his nephew were killed by armed groups that entered people’s homes, adding that there were “foreigners among them.”
“They gathered all the men on the roof and opened fire on them,” Haidar said.
The mass killings followed clashes sparked by the arrest of a wanted suspect in a predominantly Alawite village, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reporting a “relative return to calm” in the coastal region on Saturday. 
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