{"id":3186,"date":"2026-08-26T04:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:30:42","slug":"kurdish-forces-in-syria-announce-dissolution-after-army-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish forces in Syria announce dissolution after army merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the Washington-backed group at the forefront of the battle against Daesh, announced their dissolution on Tuesday under a deal with the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After being Syria\u2019s most highly-trained and organised paramilitary force for years, Washington promptly dropped the SDF in favour of the new US-friendly authorities in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forces\u2019 leader, Mazloum Abdi, declared their dissolution in a televised speech at the presidential palace in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe announce today the end of the mission of the Syrian Democratic Forces and declare, with full responsibility, their dissolution as an independent military force,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdi explained that the announcement followed \u201cthe completion of the process of integrating our forces into the brigades of the Syrian army.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the Washington-backed group at the forefront of the battle against Daesh, announced their dissolution on Tuesday under a deal with the government. After being Syria\u2019s most highly-trained and organised paramilitary force for years, Washington promptly dropped the SDF in favour of the new US-friendly authorities in Damascus&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1525,3315,5165,5164,5163,5166,1164],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-announce","tag-army","tag-dissolution","tag-forces","tag-kurdish","tag-merger","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}