What future for the Kurds after ceasefire deal with Syrian government?

France 24 · Feb 26, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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Dreams of an autonomous state for the Kurds are slipping away after a Syrian government offensive saw them lose large swathes of territory in the northeast of the country. A ceasefire deal at the end of January between Kurdish-led forces and the government in Damascus ended the fighting. In Middle East Matters, Haxie Meyers-Belkin spoke to Mohammed A. Salih, a Kurdish specialist from the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute.

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