(11 Mar 2025)
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Qamishli, Syria – 11 March 2025
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1. Syrians gathered on streets in Qamishli chanting, UPSOUND (Arabic): ”One, one, one – Syrian people are one”
2. People raising flags of Syria, PKK, and posters of Abdulla Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader
3. Cars honking and carrying flags of SDF and Ocalan posters
4. People dancing on street in the city
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Beirut, Lebanon – 11 March 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kareem Chehayeb, The Associated Press:
"Syria’s interim government has reached a landmark agreement which effectively gives them control over almost the entire country. This deal was reached with the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which for over a decade have ruled northeastern Syria. Washington considers the SDF to be their biggest ally in Syria, as they cooperate militarily to take out remnants of the Islamist state extremist group. This agreement comes hours after the government said it ended a counter-offensive to crush an insurgency of former government loyalists in Syria’s coastal province. That counteroffensive also included broader retaliatory attacks against the Alawite community."
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Jableh, Syria – 10 March 2025
6. Burnt car
7. Debris and discarded equipment at checkpoint
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Beirut, Lebanon – 11 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kareem Chehayeb, The Associated Press:
"Going forward, interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa hopes that this agreement will help bring about more deals with skeptics of his Islamist rule, including the Druze in southern Syria. And also with northeastern Syria under his control, he could possibly now access oil fields, which he desperately needs as Syria’s economy continues to plunge. But that being said, with his achievements also comes new challenges. Northeastern Syria is a hotbed of sleeper cells of the Islamic State extremist group, and he also has to attend to tens of thousands of detained Islamic State fighters and their families from dozens of countries around the world."
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Jableh, Syria – 10 March 2025
9. Various of burned cars
STORYLINE:
Syria’s interim government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast.
It includes a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed force there into the Syrian army.
The deal is a major breakthrough that would bring most of Syria under the control of the government.
The deal was signed Monday by interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and the commander of the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
The deal to be implemented by the end of the year would bring all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, airports and oil fields in the northeast under central government control.
Prisons where about 9,000 suspected members of the Islamic State group are also expected to come under government control.
Syria’s new rulers are struggling to exert their authority across the country and reach political settlements with other minority communities, notably the Druze in southern Syria.
Earlier on Monday, Syria’s government announced the end of the military operation against insurgents loyal to Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the civil war.
Though the government’s counter-offensive was able to largely contain the insurgency, footage surfaced of what appeared to be retaliatory attacks targeting the broader minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents live mainly in the western coastal region.
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