Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to integrate the group into state institutions.

The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, has signed a deal agreeing to integrate into Syria's new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday.

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (right) shakes the hand of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi after the signing of an agreement to integrate the SDF into state institutions in the Syrian capital Damascus on March 10, 2025 [Handout: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) via AFP]