A-Infos (en) UK, AFED, Organise - (A) REPORT FROM NES - 31.01.26/01.02.26 - Ongoing Finalisation of STG-DAANES Agreement (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

For what is known currently about the plan to implement the ceasefire 
and integration agreement: STG forces were and are already withdrawing 
from Heseke and Kobane frontlines.
Internal security forces of the transitional Syrian state already went 
to internal security forces of Kobane to discuss how this task will be done.
Implementation of further steps as counted from tomorrow:
- Day 1 (Monday) STG security vehicles going to Heseke and Qamishlo
- Day 2 Oil fields of NES into STG control
- Day 3 Syrian Civil Aviation Authority will take control of Qamishlo 
airport (which before was held by Russians) and Syrian forces to NES' 
(only!) border crossing (with KRG/Kurdistan-Iraq)

SDF will withdraw from Heseke and Qamishlo to agreed barracks. SDF and 
STG allegedly started already to withdraw from Kobane and Heseke 
frontlines. STG forces are to move to Shaddadi.

SDF is to have a brigade of 6,000 in Kobane, and three brigades 
totalling 16,000 in Heseke province.
Military forces are prohibited to enter cities and villages, especially 
Kurdish areas.

After these steps, the Syrian transitional state will take over civilian 
institutions of Heseke province and DAANES institutions will be 
integrated into the Syrian state apparatus. DAANES and SDF nominate 
persons for positions in the Syrian institutions, and STG needs to 
approve them. SDF already nominated Nour al-Din Ahmad (Abu Omar Khanika) 
as governor of Hasakah, SDF official Redor Khalil as deputy to the 
Ministry of Interior, and SDF official Siamand Afrin as deputy director 
of security in Hasakeh province.

Internally displaced persons can return to their home cities and 
villages, additionally local officials will be appointed to represent 
them in those places.

Integration and recognition of educational institutions of NES and 
licensing of cultural organisations.
...This generally can be read as what is happening at the top of NES 
politics.

Politics From Below; What is Happening on the Ground
Generally, there is widespread confusion and uncertainty how things will 
develop. An impression, that the revolutionary project here would be 
over is short-sighted. For one, all the forces are still ready for and 
practising where needed self-defence on the frontlines. Secondly, even 
if institutions etc formally shift, all those revolutionaries will 
certainly not just betray their values and aspirations towards reform 
but remain finding ways to live up to those revolutionary principles.

ISIS Prisoners Convoy
A convoy of buses, escorted by a US armored and aicraft military convoy, 
has reached the town of Rimelan in the province of Heseke. The convoy is 
heading to Iraq through Semalka crossing to relocate ISIS prisoners to 
'safer prisons'. At the same time, there are reports that the 
relocations halted over Iraq wanting to prioritise repatriations of 
non-Iraqi, non-Syrian ISIS foreign fighters to their respective 
countries of origin. Overall, only a fragment of the supposed 7,000 ISIS 
militants were moved to Iraq so far.

Humanitarian Aid Still Blocked From Entering Kobane
Just, as could be observed so often in Gaza, 25 direly needed 
humanitarian aid trucks carrying essential basic necessities for people 
in besieged Kobane are still halted at the Turkish border just outside 
of Kobane. For the three days the trucks are waiting there already, many 
representatives of civil organisations and the DEM party are holding a 
vigil next to the trucks.

Repression of Solidarity Mobilisations
Further 29 activists of the 'Caravan Defending Humanity' that arrived 
this weekend at the Turkish-N.E.Syrian border were arrested and 
deported. Before, they had read a statement and protested in the streets 
of Pirsus (Suruc). The official reason for the arrests is currently unknown.
Kurdish youth from Turkey, Iran, and Iraq were stopped attempting to 
enter NES at Semalka border crossing to follow the call for general 
mobilisation.

Evaluation
Generally, roles of authority play an even larger role now, and civil 
and military leadership of NES are very busy working towards a political 
solution, with the wish to avoid further war and the lack of an 
alternative prospect besides total war and reformist integration. 
Whether the ceasefire and agreement will be respected and followed and 
whether its implication will work, is entirely uncertain at this point 
in time. Diplomatic politics are currently the preferred means, with the 
aim to avoid more losses due to war. At the same time, Turkey is 
strikingly silent and on the surface uninvolved in the latest stages of 
agreement making. Turkey still is at the border, always ready to invade, 
and can take further steps of pressure and attack if not approving of 
the agreement. Meanwhile, as expressed in the 'politics from below' 
part, what is happening on the top does not translate directly to what 
happens on the ground. There is an atmosphere of change and unclarity in 
the air, but certainly all the revolutionary principles and achievements 
that have been fought for hardly, will not be abandoned.

Revolutionary greetings!

https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/02/03/a-report-from-nes-31-01-26-01-02-26/
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