Overview
- Syrian troops entered al-Hasakah and Qamishli under daytime curfews to facilitate the handover, with no Kurdish resistance expected, while Kobane remains under Kurdish control but effectively besieged.
- The agreement dissolves the SDF into the Syrian army, including plans for a Kurdish division and brigade under state command.
- Damascus assumed control of the al-Hol, Roj and al-Aqtan detention sites, with nearly 25,000 people held at al-Hol.
- CENTCOM said it moved 150 ISIS-linked detainees to Iraq and signaled possible further transfers of around 7,000 detainees of varied nationalities.
- Human-rights groups warned the transfers risk violating non-refoulement, citing torture and death-penalty risks for returnees to Iraq.