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Syria’s new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country’s rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defence ministry.
Absent from the meeting were representatives of the US-backed, Kurdish-led forces that control swathes of Syria’s northeast.
The meeting between the rebel groups and Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa “ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all the groups and their integration under the supervision of the ministry of defence”, said a statement carried by the SANA news agency and the authorities’ Telegram account, reports AFP.
The announcement comes just over two weeks after president Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, following a lightning offensive spearheaded by Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group.
On Sunday Sharaa, long known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, had said the new authorities would “absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control”.
That also applied to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), he said.
