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list 1 of 4Which Kurdish groups is the US are rallying to fight Iran.
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The group once controlled a de facto autonomous zone in Syria’s northeast. Speaking in the news conference in Damascus, Abdi said the SDF has completed a merger with the Syrian army and would cease to operate as an independent force.
The Kurdish-led force lost most of its territory in northeast Syria to a Damascus offensive in January and then signed the deal to merge with the government army.
The SDF was once the main partner of the United States in Syria as it battled the Islamic State group. But after the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December 2024, Washington formed close ties with the new government in Damascus led by interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former leader of an Islamist insurgent group.
On a cultural node, Abdi said that the president has noted the “preservation of our right to education in the Kurdish language,” adding that they would work to implement “education in the Kurdish language during the current year.”.
The United States also removed Syria from the state sponsors of terror list, a decades-old designation that came with severe economic restrictions, marking another step in warming ties between the countries following the 2024 ouster of Assad.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the move saying, “Syria shakes off a dark stain and tears away a painful chapter of its past to embark on a path of development, reconstruction and rebuilding.”.
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