Overview
- Government security columns rolled into Qamichli on February 3 and set up checkpoints at the city’s entrances, a day after entering Hassakeh.
- The accord ends the Kurdish self‑administration, folds the FDS into a dedicated Syrian army division and integrates the Assayesh under the Interior Ministry with salaries paid by Damascus.
- Within roughly ten days, the government is slated to assume control of selected oilfields, Qamichli airport and several border posts previously held by Kurdish authorities.
- Local officials imposed curfews in Hassakeh and Qamichli to facilitate the handover as state forces also deployed around villages near Kobane.
- The United States has begun transferring senior jihadist detainees from Kurdish‑run facilities to Iraq as concerns rise over Ghwayran prison and the Roj camp, and Turkey’s president warned that any attempt to sabotage the deal would be crushed.