After Syrian forces on Wednesday seized Kurdish strongholds in the northeast of the country, the Syrian government [Jolani’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists] gave Kurdish forces until Saturday to reach an agreement on how they will integrate into the state. Is the dream of an autonomous state over for Syria’s Kurds?

As Syria’s Kurds come under increased pressure from the central government in Damascus, they have seen their alliance with the US crumble.

Backed by the US, the Kurds have long spearheaded efforts by the West to fight against the Islamic State (IS) group.

The Kurdish-led armed group, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in 2012-2013 established its governance over swathes of territory in the north and northeast of the country that became known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or Rojava (meaning “west” in Kurdish).

But since the fall of [France24 calls him a dictator] Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s new leadership has formed its own alliance with Washington and pushed the Kurds to give up their aspirations of autonomy.

Violent clashes with government forces in January saw the Kurds driven out from the city of Aleppo. They later evacuated Raqqa and Deir Ezzor.

The SDF, which previously controlled around 30 percent of Syria’s territory, has been pushed back to strongholds along the Turkish border in al-Hasakah, Qamishli and Kobane and handed over governance of prisons holding thousands of IS group members.

“The original purpose of the SDF as the primary anti-ISIS force on the ground has largely expired, as Damascus is now both willing and positioned to take over security responsibilities, including control of ISIS detention facilities and camps,” US ambassador to Syria Tom Barrack wrote on X, using an alternative acronym for the IS group.

[France24  titles him a President when he is a Jihadist in a suit and a proscribed terrorist] President Ahmed al-Sharaa [real name Jolani] has now given the Kurds until January 24 to propose a plan for the peaceful integration of Rojava into the Syrian state.

Are the Kurds’ gains in autonomy and sovereignty over the last few years now disintegrating? 

Adel Bakawan, director of the European Institute for Studies on the Middle East and North Africa (EISMENA) and author of “La Décomposition du Moyen-Orient. Trois ruptures qui ont fait basculer l’Histoire” (“The Decomposition of the Middle East: Three Breakdowns that Changed History”) explains.

During the Syrian civil war from 2011-2014, around 105 different groups were fighting, sometimes against each other.

This is when Daesh [also known as the Islamic State group] emerged from a split with al Qaeda. The United States and Europe chose to train and support the Kurds so that they could lead the fight against Daesh.

In doing so, the SDF advanced as far as Raqqa and Deir Ezzor – zones controlled by Arab tribes.

When Sharaa took power on December 8 [Backe by the West, including Turkey, Jolani overthew the legitimate government of a sovereign country], 2024, it was thanks to his network in the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

When he visited Riyadh, [Saudi leader] Mohammed bin Salman convinced [US President] Donald Trump to normalise relations with Syria, lifting sanctions and integrating it into the international coalition against Daesh.

The SDF no longer held the card of fighting against Daesh, and when the new Syrian state was integrated into the international coalition, the Kurds also had to hand over control of prisons holding thousands of Daesh leaders and militants.

Next, the Americans asked the Arab tribes that were integrated in the Kurd’s autonomous administration in north-east Syria to cut their ties with the SDF and to join Sharaa’s new army. The Kurds could not wage war against their former allies and the Syrian army, so the cities they were holding fell very quickly.

Finally, the Kurds lost control of the oil and gas fields that had financed their economy, and dams that were very important for geostrategy and geopolitics.

What room for manoeuvre do the Kurds have now?

They don’t have much leverage, except through Iraqi Kurdistan, with whom they have had disagreements throughout the 13 years of Rojava’s governance.

Thanks to strong international lobbying, Donald Trump picked up the telephone to tell Sharaa not to enter Rojava, the historic Kurdish territory.

Kurdish fighters have now left Aleppo and Raqqa. Clashes there did not spark a war – although the Kurds do still have a very powerful army. It’s a trained and armed ideological organisation, which will not surrender. And that is a means of exerting pressure.

What does the future hold for Rojava? Is it the end of the Kurds’ dream of their own state?

We are entering into a grey area. It was predictable that the US would drop the Kurds, and we foresaw that. The Kurds in Rojava have also been abandoned by Israel – even though Israel has helped the Druze.

France24 report

The Kurds have been repeated ensnared to the same Western-zionist trap.

The following excerpt from a famous speech of the great martyred leader Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah should serve a lesson to the Kurdish people.

In Iraq, the Kurds trusted the Americans and were slaughtered by Saddam without American intervention or protection despite promises.

The West [Germany and France] delivered the Mustard Gas to Saddam that annihilated Kurds in Iraq.

The same playback repeated itself in Syria when ISIS [today’s Jolani] backed by Turkey  on the border of Turkey slaughtered the Kurds.

The American government abandoned the SDF for the sake of their NATO-ally Turkey.

Hence, SDF sought support from the Al Assad government and received the military  backing.

The fate of these collaborators is a lesson to all the Lebanese. This is a new experience for us: you saw how they were humiliated and how they blamed their leader for betraying them. The agent Antoine Lahd said, “We were faithful to Israel for 25 years, but it betrayed and abandoned us in the span of a single night.” This should be a lesson for every Christian and Muslim Lebanese: Israel does not care about anyone in Lebanon; it lies to the Christians and lies to the Muslims, while pretending to care about them. What Israel cares about in Lebanon and this whole region is its own interest, its own purpose and ambitions; in the eyes of these Zionists, we Christians and Muslims are mere servants and slaves to God’s chosen people.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah