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2024-12-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Syria authorities say armed groups have agreed to disband
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[NEWARAB] Syria's new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country's rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defence ministry.
Absent from the meeting were representatives of the US-backed, Kurdish-led forces that control swathes of Syria's northeast.
The meeting between the rebel groups and Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa "ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all the groups and their integration under the supervision of the ministry of defence", said a statement carried by the SANA news agency and the authorities' Telegram account.
The announcement comes just over two weeks after president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
fled Syria, following a lightning offensive spearheaded by Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
 ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) group.
On Sunday Sharaa, long known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, had said the new authorities would "absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control".
That also applied to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), he said.
Last week, the military chief of HTS told AFP that Kurdish-held areas would be integrated under the new leadership, and that "Syria will not be divided".
Thirteen years of civil war in Syria has left more than half a million people dead and fragmented the country into zones of influence controlled by different gangs backed by regional and international powers.
SDF front man Farhad Shami told AFP the question of his group's integration into the national armed forces "should be discussed directly".
He did not dismiss the possibility, saying that doing so would strengthen "the whole of Syria".
Shami added that his forces prefer "dialogue with Damascus to resolve all questions". 
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