The Syrian caretaker government’s Defense Minister, Merhaf Abu Qasra, rejected the idea of the “SDF” forces maintaining a separate unit within the Syrian Army.
Abu Qasra, in an interview with Reuters on Sunday, stated: “This talk does not make sense,” clarifying that the integration of “SDF” elements into the armed forces should be “within the structure of the Ministry of Defense, and they should be distributed in a military manner.”
However, he added, “for them to remain as a military bloc within the Ministry of Defense, meaning a bloc within a larger institution, is not correct.”
Reports on the ground say that massive reinforcements from the SDF and the Turkish-backed National Army at the Tishrin Dam axis in the eastern Aleppo countryside.
