Peloni: American betrayal of the Kurds is now complete as the US trades the Kurds out in preference of the Al-Queda-in-a-Suit Jolani to handle its outsourcing opposition to Isis.
New ceasefire will give Kurds 4 days to deliberate on integration agreement
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The U.S. envoy for Syria said the U.S. is shifting the focus of its anti-ISIS alliance from the Kurds to the new Syrian government, as the two sides agreed Tuesday on a new ceasefire after a previous truce collapsed amid heavy clashes in the northeast.
Tom Barrack, who serves as special envoy for Syria in addition to being ambassador to Turkey, said in a post on ? that “the situation has fundamentally changed” since the start of the alliance with the Kurdish-led SDF, signaling that the U.S. had taken the side of the Syrian government led by former designated terrorist, Ahmad al-Sharaa (al-Jolani).
“Syria now has an acknowledged central government that has joined the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS (as its 90th member in late 2025), signaling a westward pivot and cooperation with the US on counterterrorism. This shifts the rationale for the US-SDF partnership: the original purpose of the SDF as the primary anti-ISIS force on the ground has largely expired, as Damascus is now both willing and positioned to take over security responsibilities, including control of ISIS detention facilities and camp,” Barrack wrote.
The statement could confirm claims by the Kurdish SDF that calls for military help from the U.S. military went unanswered in recent days, as the government’s troops have swept northward to overrun most of the formerly SDF-held territories east of the Euphrates River.
On Tuesday, both sides announced that a four-day ceasefire would start Tuesday evening, after reaching a new deal for a framework to integrate the Kurdish-held territories, which they call Rojava and have controlled for around a decade, into the central state.
The last ceasefire agreement on Sunday had broken down as SDF troops resisted the continued advance of government forces.
According to the Syrian Presidency, it will grant the SDF four days to consult on a deal to integrate Hasakah province, including civilian and military structures, with the administration in Damascus.
Until then, government troops will not enter Kurdish villages or the majority-Kurdish cities of Hasakah and Qamishli.
SDF sources told the Emirati news site The National that Washington had forbidden it to use its advanced weapons as its lines collapsed amid the onslaught of government troops, many of which were part of Islamist terror groups in the past, including al-Sharaa’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Barrack, as well as President Trump, have signaled that the U.S. supports the complete reunification of Syria and the integration of all minorities into the central state.
Trump told the Kurdish Rudaw site on Tuesday that he “likes” the Kurds, while noting that they “were paid tremendous amounts of money – we have given oil and other things. So, they were doing that for themselves, more so they were doing it for us. But we get along with the Kurds and we are trying to protect the Kurds.”
Barrack wrote that “the greatest opportunity for the Kurds in Syria right now lies in the post-Assad transition under the new government,” noting this would offer “a pathway to full integration into a unified Syrian state with citizenship rights, cultural protections, and political participation.”
Last Friday, Sharaa had published a decree formally recognizing Kurdish as a “national language,” allowing schools to teach Kurdish, restored citizenship to all Kurdish Syrians, declared the Kurdish Nowruz festival as a national holiday, banned ethnic or linguistic discrimination, and set penalties for incitement to ethnic strife.
However, he did not offer the Kurds any type of autonomy, or control over oil fields and border crossings, as the SDF had sought.
A Syrian government official and other sources told The National that the U.S. decided to support the government but, in return, expects Sharaa to agree to a peace treaty with Israel. “Both the US and Israel realise that the era of dealing with Syria’s minorities is over,” the official said.
He explained that Sharaa’s government had proven more “consistent” in its dealings with Washington than the SDF, which, over the course of the decade-long civil war, sought support and relations with Russia, the former Assad regime and others.
The clashes in northeastern Syria these last days caused particular worry across the world as the region houses several SDF-controlled prisons holding ISIS fighters.
“This is a big concern for us,” a western diplomat told The National, adding that the issue of the thousands of ISIS terrorists, many of them with European citizenships, is a key consideration in the region. “This is why we have the [anti-ISIS] coalition,” he said.
On Monday, at least dozens of terrorists broke out of Shaddadi prison, though the government said it managed to recapture most of them.
On Tuesday, the SDF said it was “forced” to withdraw from al-Hol camp, which houses thousands of terrorists, as well as their wives and children, after clashes in the area.
The government accused the SDF of using the clashes as a pretext to abandon the camp and pressure it by allowing the terrorists to escape.
It vowed to hold “the SDF leadership fully responsible for any repercussions” and not to allow “any security vacuum that threatens the safety of the region.”
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