{"id":316061,"date":"2026-02-07T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-shaky-is-the-truce-between-kurdish-led-sdf-forces-and-syrias-islamist-government-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:00:59","slug":"how-shaky-is-the-truce-between-kurdish-led-sdf-forces-and-syrias-islamist-government-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-shaky-is-the-truce-between-kurdish-led-sdf-forces-and-syrias-islamist-government-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How shaky is the truce between Kurdish-led SDF forces and Syria&#8217;s Islamist government? | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/kPYCZWuRHJ8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How shaky is the truce between Kurdish-led SDF forces and Syria's Islamist government? | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kPYCZWuRHJ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Residents of northeastern Syria are adjusting to a new reality following a US-brokered ceasefire between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the SDF. The deal was reached after weeks of fighting in the region led to major territory losses for Kurdish troops. Under the agreement, Kurdish forces will gradually be integrated into the Syrian army &#8212; and Kurdish civil bodies will become part of the state. Since then, a small number of Syrian government forces have entered Kurdish strongholds \u2013 with the stated goal of facilitating this integration. But the situation is volatile &#8211; and many Kurds are skeptical about what they perceive as the erosion of their de facto autonomy. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter Breakdown<br \/>\n0:00 Syrian gov&#8217;t forces move into Kurdish strongholds<br \/>\n0:46 DW\u2019s Mohamad Chreyteh and Baderkhan Ahmad report on the mood among the Arab and Kurdish communities in northeast Syria<br \/>\n4:22 Wladimir van Wilgenburg, journalist and author of &quot;The Kurds of Northern Syria,&quot; on the shaky truce between Syrian government and Kurdish forces<\/p>\n<p>#kurdishforces<br \/>\n#syria<br \/>\n#sdf <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of northeastern Syria are adjusting to a new reality following a US-brokered ceasefire between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the SDF. The deal was reached after weeks of fighting in the region led to major territory losses for Kurdish troops. Under the agreement, Kurdish forces will gradually be integrated into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[131767,129486,135870],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-316061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-northeastern","tag-residents","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How shaky is the truce between Kurdish-led SDF forces and Syria&#039;s Islamist government? | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How shaky is the truce between Kurdish-led SDF forces and Syria&#039;s Islamist government? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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