Here's some analysis about the new agreement from people who know a whole lot more than me:

"The deal is far from a major breakthrough, but it does avert an immediate slide into a much larger humanitarian and security catastrophe and paves the way for some form of stability. The agreement is effectively a declaration of the end of the Kurdish self-rule project as exercised by the SDF through the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), but it leaves room for some measure of Kurdish self-administration in Hasakah and Kobani."
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"Rather than dismantling the SDF outright—a demand Damascus had aggressively pushed in recent weeks—the deal envisages the SDF’s incorporation as organized units, with the formation of four brigades, including one in Kobani. This represents an important retreat by Damascus from its earlier insistence in the 18 January agreement that SDF fighters be absorbed individually after “vetting.”"
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"Taken together, today’s agreement represents a middle-ground outcome. It falls well short of the SDF’s original demands for federalism or meaningful autonomy, yet it goes beyond what Damascus was willing to concede in the 18 January proposal.

The deal appears to have been born of the new reality on the ground, in which Kurdish forces have demonstrated a willingness to resist a military push by Damascus into Kurdish-majority areas. It also reflects growing opposition to Sharaa’s campaign and treatment of Kurds, which has raised serious concerns in some quarters in Washington, particularly on Capitol Hill."

https://eyeonkurdistan.substack.com/p/inside-the-sdfdamascus-agreement

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