CAIRO (Reuters) -The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria's oil-rich ...

The SDF is the military wing of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), sometimes called Rojava. The deal is to be carried out by year’s end.

While Abdi was commanding the SDF to defeat ISIS from 2015 to 2019, the fighters of HTS were taking control of the Idlib province in northwest Syria. Abdi’s forces eventually came to control a ...