A truce agreement was reached in Hasaka between the official governmental sides and the Asayish, the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party.
SANA reporter in Hasaka said the agreement involves applying a truce system as of 5PM on Sunday and evacuating the wounded and transporting them to hospitals in Qamishli, in addition to restoring the situation in Hasaka to how it was before and beginning new dialogue on Monday to resolve the remaining unresolved issues.
Asayish had escalated their acts of provocation in Hasaka city during the past few days, attacking state establishments, stealing oil and cotton, disrupting examinations, carrying out abductions, and causing a state of chaos and instability, in addition to targeting positions of the Syrian Arab Army which required a suitable response by the Army as it targeted the sources of artillery fire and the gatherings of armed elements responsible for these criminal actions.
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The northeastern city has been rocked by deadly clashes between US-backed Kurdish forces and fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad since Wednesday.
In a bid to calm tensions, a delegation of Russian officials from the coastal Hmeimim military airport arrived in the nearby city of Qamishli on Saturday for talks with the two sides.
A Syrian military source told AFP the deal was struck between regime forces and Kurdish fighters after two days of mediation by regime ally Russia.
The three-point agreement calls for a “halt to all hostilities and the return to regime forces of any positions seized by Kurdish fighters” since Wednesday, the Syrian military source said.
It also stipulates that casualties would be transferred north to Qamishli.
The military source said additional negotiations would take place on Monday.
However, a Kurdish military source told AFP from Hasakeh that none of the three points had been agreed.
“No agreement has been reached on a ceasefire or the return of positions to the regime,” said the source, who declined to be named, stressing that more negotiations are due on Monday...
[AFP/kurdishdailynews.org]
22/8/16
SANA reporter in Hasaka said the agreement involves applying a truce system as of 5PM on Sunday and evacuating the wounded and transporting them to hospitals in Qamishli, in addition to restoring the situation in Hasaka to how it was before and beginning new dialogue on Monday to resolve the remaining unresolved issues.
Asayish had escalated their acts of provocation in Hasaka city during the past few days, attacking state establishments, stealing oil and cotton, disrupting examinations, carrying out abductions, and causing a state of chaos and instability, in addition to targeting positions of the Syrian Arab Army which required a suitable response by the Army as it targeted the sources of artillery fire and the gatherings of armed elements responsible for these criminal actions.
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- Kurds deny Hasakeh truce deal agreed with Syria regime ...
The northeastern city has been rocked by deadly clashes between US-backed Kurdish forces and fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad since Wednesday.
In a bid to calm tensions, a delegation of Russian officials from the coastal Hmeimim military airport arrived in the nearby city of Qamishli on Saturday for talks with the two sides.
A Syrian military source told AFP the deal was struck between regime forces and Kurdish fighters after two days of mediation by regime ally Russia.
The three-point agreement calls for a “halt to all hostilities and the return to regime forces of any positions seized by Kurdish fighters” since Wednesday, the Syrian military source said.
It also stipulates that casualties would be transferred north to Qamishli.
The military source said additional negotiations would take place on Monday.
However, a Kurdish military source told AFP from Hasakeh that none of the three points had been agreed.
“No agreement has been reached on a ceasefire or the return of positions to the regime,” said the source, who declined to be named, stressing that more negotiations are due on Monday...
[AFP/kurdishdailynews.org]
22/8/16
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A truce has been reached between Syrian forces and Kurdish fighters in the volatile northeastern province of Hasakah under a Russian mediation, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported on Sunday...
ReplyDeleteThe report said the regime of calm includes a cessation of battles, evacuation of wounded people, return to the previous lines of both parties, and the start of negotiations.
The ceasefire starts as of 5 p.m. on Sunday coupled with transporting the wounded to hospitals in the city of Qamishli in Hasaka.
The military positions should return to their previous state, as the negotiations are set to start on Monday at the Qamishli airport between representatives of the Syrian and Kurdish sides as well as Iranian and Russian mediators.
A day earlier, a source in the city told Xinhua that the Russians started mediation efforts to defuse the tension and the battles that have raged between the Kurdish police forces, Assayish, and the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF), a paramilitary forces backing the army, over the past few days.
Tension started last week, when both the NDF and Assayish arrested members of each other.
As tension grew bigger, the Kurdish militias demanded the dissolve of the NDF in Hasakah, a request denied by the Syrian army.
Later on, the Assayish started shelling the NDF positions inside Hasakah, prompting the Syrian army to respond with airstrikes for the first time, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Assayish and the People Protection Units (YPG) said they will respond to the attacks of the Syrian forces, unleashing wide-scale offensives on the NDF positions inside the city of Hasakah.
The source said the Kurds couldn't advance in government-controlled areas, contrary to their claims that they have achieved that.....http://www.china.org.cn/world/2016-08/22/content_39138187.htm
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