The Minister of Defense of the new administration of Syria, formed after the overthrow of the Baas regime, Murkhaf Abu Kasra met with the commanders of armed groups in the Arab Republic.
As the Syrian news agency Sana reported, the meetings were organized to initiate the process of integrating armed groups into the Syria Ministry of Defense.
“Preparatory meetings are continuing between the Ministry of Defense and the military commander to initiate the process of integration (armed) groups into the department,” the agency noted, commenting on the meeting in Damascus.
Abu Kasra also met with the commander of the US Syrian Free Army, Salim Salim Anteri.
The leader of the new leadership of Syria, Ahmed Ash Shara, on December 29, 2024, told the Saudi television channel Al-Arabia that the group of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will definitely be dissolved.
“The country cannot be controlled according to the logic of revolutionaries and groups. I think that it will be dissolved at the conference. This will be officially announced” “” He said.
Ash Shara also commented on the theme of the dissolution of the National Coalition of the Syrian opposition and revolutionary forces (SMDK). “This does not mean that they will go to sit in their homes, this means that they will participate in the construction of a new Syrian state,” he assured.
The leader of the new administration of Syria said that PKK/YPG would not be able to turn the country into his stronghold. “Kurds – an integral part of Syria and the country will not be divided,” he emphasized.
speaking of contacts with YPG (Syrian branch of the PKK terrorist organization), which uses the name of Syrian democratic forces, Ash Shara said that the leadership of Syria is negotiating to resolve the crisis in the northeast of the country and the subsequent inclusion of this group in government Armed Forces.
The new administration in Damascus wants the Nesirian elements of the PKK/YPG terrorist organization, which occupied a third of the territory of Syria, left the country, and the remaining elements have laid out weapons and integrated into security structures in the way that the Ministry of Defense will consider it appropriate. However, the terrorist organization does not agree with this.