Exclusive-Kurds to push for federal system in post-Assad Syria


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  • Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

Members of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stand along a street, after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Hasakah, Syria December 11, 2024. REUTERS/Orhan Qereman

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling down on a decentralised vision opposed by the interim president.

The demand for federal rule has gathered momentum as alarm spread through Syria's minorities over last month's mass killings of Alawites, while Kurdish groups have accused interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and his Islamist group of setting the wrong course for the new Syria and monopolising power.

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