Talks between Damascus, Kurdish-led forces 'collapse': Kurdish official to AFP

President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, who heads the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), were meeting to discuss a ceasefire agreement that included integrating the Kurds' administration into the state. The agreement had marked a blow for the Kurds' long-held ambitions of preserving the de facto autonomy they had exercised in swathes of northern Syria for over a decade. It came after rapid army gains in Kurdish-controlled territory, with Sharaa refusing to concede on a push for decentralisation...