Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa plans to meet SDF chief Mazloum Abdi (also known as Mazloum Kobani) on Monday after the Kurdish commander missed a sit-down a day earlier because of “bad weather”.
Al-Sharaa is expected to meet Abdi after the large-scale retreat of his SDF fighters and rapidly signed ceasefire on Sunday night.
The meeting was postponed from Sunday because bad weather reportedly prevented Abdi from reaching Damascus, where al-Sharaa was already meeting US envoy Barrack.
The Syrian presidency said the ceasefire guarantees the integration of SDF fighters into state institutions and the deployment of government authorities to Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Hasakah.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Syria has said that thousands of people fled the town of Tabqa towards Qamishli in the country’s Kurdish-led north last night, Al Jazeera reported.
The mass exodus came as government forces swept through northeast Syria on Sunday. It added that 102 families arrived at the Newroz refugee camp.
In a post on X, the United Nations agency welcomed the ceasefire agreed on between the SDF and the Syrian government.
The SDF is now expected to fully integrate its fighters into the regular army as well as place public infrastructure and services into the hands of the federal government.
Syrian troops have seized control over the crucial al-Omar and al-Tanak oilfields in the eastern Deir Ez-Zor countryside – a key point in a March 10, 2025 agreement between Damascus and the SDF.