April 17, 2026

Russian pressure on the SDF to withdraw from Tal Tamr and Ain Issa to Manbij

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The Russian efforts on more than one level to stop the security deterioration and cordon off the Turkish threats to launch aggression on the Syrian territories in the north and north-east of the country have resulted in a reduction in the severity of the threats Turkish officials have been releasing, at least in the last days of the Russian calm efforts, as the Russian leadership is focusing its efforts It is currently working on finding “compromise solutions” that guarantee the interests of all parties to the conflict to pull the trigger for the supposed confrontations.

Sources familiar with what is going on in the corridors of Russian negotiations and mediation to prevent a worsening of the situation in the north and northeastern regions of Syria.

The Russian initiatives are manifested in persuading the leaders of the Kurdish component in those areas to withdraw their fighters from the disputed sites such as Tal Tamr, Ain Issa, and possibly Manbij, in return for the Russian military police stationing there to establish a sustainable truce until the conditions for a sustainable solution mature, and in the context of preserving the territorial integrity of Syria and its refusal to interfere in the country’s internal affairs, which Moscow stresses permanently and on all occasions concerning Syria.

Moscow has recently intensified its efforts to preserve the map of the region, which the Turkish army intends to redraw.

A delegation from the “Syria Democratic Council – SDF”, the political arm of the “SDF”, headed by Ilham Ahmed, headed to it on Tuesday, to hold consultations in the hope of reaching consensus that would recalculate Turkey to stop their military intervention, pending the expected Russian-Turkish military meeting in Ankara during this week, to the same end.

The Russian efforts during the coming period are aimed at curbing the Turkish military escalation until representatives of Russia, Iran and Turkey, which are the guarantor countries of the cease-fire according to the previous agreements

On the ground, on the fronts east and west of the Euphrates, with the exception of the front of the northern countryside of Tal Tamr in the northwestern countryside of Hasakeh, as the Turkish army continued its artillery bombardment, for the third day in a row, towards the towns of Dardara and al Mujaybara, which pushed the remaining of its residents to flee towards safer nearby areas, after a number of civilians were wounded the previous day.

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