Kurdish chief appointed to the position days after the dissolution of the drive he commanded.
Printed On 27 Aug 2026
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has appointed Mazloum Abdi, chief of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a presidential advisor.
Al-Sharaa issued Decree No 164, appointing Abdi as “as an advisor to the Presidency of the Republic” on Thursday, the Syrian state information company Sana reported.
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The transfer comes three days after Abdi introduced the dissolution of the SDF and the completion of its integration with the Syrian army.
Abdi is essentially the most senior of a number of Kurdish figures appointed to state posts. One other commander was made assistant defence minister for the jap area earlier this yr.
The advisory position is a lesser place than one supplied in January, when al-Sharaa proposed making Abdi deputy defence minister and nominating him as governor of Hasakah province, in an effort to restore state management over the SDF-controlled provincial capital.
Al-Sharaa and Abdi first agreed to fold the SDF into the central authorities in March 2025. That deal made little progress earlier than its year-end deadline, spurring state forces to battle into the northeast in January, taking the cities of Raqqa and Deir Az Zor from the SDF.
A ceasefire that ended the preventing positioned Raqqa, Deir Az Zor and Hasakah beneath central authorities management and dedicated the SDF to hitch the defence and inside ministries beneath a 14-point plan.
One Kurdish-led drive has but to be absorbed. The YPJ, the SDF’s ladies’s items, requested to hitch the defence ministry however have been advised the military’s construction has no items for ladies.
Alongside the army monitor, al-Sharaa issued a decree in January recognising Kurdish as a nationwide language and restoring citizenship to Syria Kurds, the primary formal recognition of Kurdish rights since Syria’s independence in 1946.
The SDF was the most important drive nonetheless outdoors the military, and its dissolution leaves Damascus with formal authority over nearly all Syrian territory. Reunifying the nation has been al-Sharaa’s central promise since former Syrian chief Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December 2024.
