The Kurdish militias controlling northeastern Syria have refused to disarm. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have launched a counter-offensive against the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) to retake territory near the Turkish border.
Yesterday it became known that the Syrian opposition groups that participated in the overthrow of Bashar Assad have agreed to come under the control of the country's Ministry of Defense, announced the country's new de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham movement.
Last week, the Prime Minister of the Syrian interim government, Mohammed Bashir, announced that the Syrian armed forces would be reformed using opposition fighters and army officers who had previously left the Syrian army.
Murhafa Abu Qasra, a senior representative of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose fighters led the rebel offensive on the capital Damascus, was appointed Minister of Defense.
