Syria’s Kurds seek talks with Assad amid regional detente

Syria’s semi-autonomous Kurdish administration said it was ready for talks with Damascus, as the government’s ties with Arab states thaw more than a decade after the country’s war broke out.

The government of President Bashar al-Assad rejects the Kurdish administration in north and northeast Syria and accuses it of “separatism.”

Several rounds of talks since 2018 between Damascus and the Kurds -- who control most of the country’s major oil and gas fields -- have failed to achieve any results.