QAMISHLI, Syria: Syrian Kurdish security forces on Sunday announced a curfew early next week in two cities in the country’s northeast, ahead of the implementation of a recent deal struck with the Islamist-led government in Damascus.
Damascus and Kurdish forces reached a comprehensive agreement on Friday to gradually integrate the Kurds’ military and civilian institutions into the state, after the Kurds ceded territory to advancing government forces in recent weeks.
Mazloum Abdi, head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, has said the deal would be implemented on the ground from Monday, with both sides to pull forces back from frontline positions in parts of the northeast, and from the town of Kobani in the north.
He said a “limited internal security force” would enter parts of Hasakah and Qamishli but that “no military forces will enter any Kurdish city or town.”
Kurdish security forces announced a curfew in the northeastern city of Hasakah from 6:00 am (0300 GMT) to 6:00 p.m. on Monday, and in the northeast’s main Kurdish city of Qamishli on Tuesday, during the same hours.
