Forces lined up with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Turkish-backed Syrian Interim Federal government performed a detainee exchange on Monday near Aleppo, as part of a more comprehensive regional contract targeted at reducing stress in northern Syria. The exchange happened under tight security on the borders of the city, following extended settlements, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
This most current swap develops on a previous exchange performed on April 3, when 146 people asked for by the SDF were traded for 97 detainees connected with the Damascus federal government. That earlier offer was collaborated in between the SDF-run area councils of Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafiya and Syrian federal government agents.
The wider plan apparently consists of 14 terms, with both sides consenting to launch detainees and improve regional security structures. According to previous reports from the Observatory, one stipulation needs Kurdish fighters running in the 2 areas to shift into General Security Forces.
The contract shows continuous efforts by the Syrian federal government to reassert control throughout fragmented parts of the nation by integrating semi-autonomous armed groups into the main security device. Syrian defense authorities just recently revealed strategies to soak up more regional systems into the main pecking order– an action extensively translated as an effort to combine authority and restrict the impact of parallel power centers.
While such contracts are unusual in Syria’s divided landscape, they represent careful actions towards normalization in areas where neither side has actually had the ability to attain complete supremacy.