Italian foreign-policy institute
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ISPI · Italy · Syria's Kurdish integration deal half-built: 80% of SDF land ceded, implementation still tense
Reads al-Sharaa's offensive against the SDF as reshaping Syria's internal balance of power — Damascus consolidating control of the northeast at the cost of a durable Kurdish settlement.
“Al-Sharaa's offensive against the SDF has reshaped the balance of power, pulling most of the northeast under Damascus's control.”