Kämpfe zwischen SDF und arabischen Milizen in Ostysrien

Während die Proteste gegen Assad im Süden weitergehen, kam es in Deir er-Zor in dem Teil der Stadt die von der kurdischen SDF kontrolliert wird zu bewaffneten Auseinandersetzungen mit arabischen Milizen:

Arab tribal leaders tell MEE the US-backed SDF's failure to address local grievances sparked bloody fighting

Among the thousands of fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) streaming into Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor to put down an uprising by Arab tribes are female fighters from the Women's Protection Units (YPJ). 

“It’s a big insult,” Hifl Abboud Jadden al-Hifl, a tribal elder whose nephew, Ibrahim al-Hifl, is on an SDF wanted list as the public face of the fight to oust the Kurdish-led alliance from the oil-rich region.

“They put them in our hometown just to send a message that our women will get you,” he told Middle East Eye over a phone interview. 

The comments are a sharp reflection of the acrimony brewing between two US allies in a forgotten corner of Syria: the SDF and Sunni Arab tribes that fought together with the US-led coalition to remove the Islamic State militant (IS) group from the region.

Now, long-standing complaints about corruption and political disenfranchisement at the hands of the SDF have erupted into violence that is destabilising the US-controlled part of Syria.

Wie es nun heißt soll es unter US-Vermittlung einen Deal zwischen beiden Seiten gegeben haben, die Frage allerdings ist ob und wie lange der halten wird:

A deal was struck on Wednesday to end fighting between US-allied Kurdish-dominated militia and Arab insurgents in a strategic area of Syria as Washington negotiates a revamped order for the region.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia took control of most of Diban, near the Euphrates River in Deir Ezzor governorate, after a deal with Arab fighters whom the militia had surrounded, the sources said.

They are led by Ibrahim Al Hafl, a major figure in the Okeidat tribe, one of Syria’s largest. The tribal force concentrated in Diban after Mr Hafl challenged Kurdish control over the mostly Arab area.

“A deal has been reached under which the Okeidat save face,” said a Kurdish source in the SDF-dominated administration in east Syria, without giving details.