{"id":66775,"date":"2026-04-14T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66775\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:40:15","slug":"800-kurdish-families-return-to-syrias-afrin-under-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66775\/","title":{"rendered":"800 Kurdish families return to Syria\u2019s Afrin under agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-14T12:15:09+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Qamishli<\/p>\n<p>Around 800 Kurdish families returned on Tuesday from<br \/>\nSyria\u2019s Hasakah province to their homes in Afrin and its countryside under an<br \/>\nagreement between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).<\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News correspondent in northeast Syria reported<br \/>\nthat the convoy marks the third organized return, following the transfer of 400<br \/>\nfamilies in mid-March and 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/New-convoy-takes-200-displaced-Kurdish-families-back-to-Syria-s-Afrin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earlier<\/a> this month. Dozens of buses and vehicles<br \/>\ndeparted from Qamishli toward Aleppo via the M4 highway before continuing to<br \/>\nAfrin under tight security.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed al-Hilali, spokesperson for the Syrian<br \/>\npresidential team overseeing SDF integration, described the move as a sign of<br \/>\n\u201ctangible progress\u201d in preparing conditions for displaced residents. He pointed<br \/>\nto recent meetings with communities in Ras al-Ain (Sere Kaniye) that addressed<br \/>\nsecurity concerns, particularly in areas such as Nashwa and Gweiran, highlighting<br \/>\nongoing coordination with relevant authorities to support \u201ca gradual and stable<br \/>\nreturn\u201d while addressing service challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Syrian government and the SDF <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Syrian-forces-to-deploy-in-Hasakah-Qamishli-under-SDF-Damascus-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reached<\/a><br \/>\na comprehensive ceasefire agreement that includes the gradual integration of<br \/>\nmilitary structures between the two sides. The deal also provides for<br \/>\nintegrating Autonomous Administration institutions into state structures,<br \/>\nretaining civil employees, settling civil and educational rights for the<br \/>\nKurdish community, and facilitating the return of displaced residents to their<br \/>\nhometowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-14T12:15:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Qamishli Around 800 Kurdish families returned on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[25040,152,25041,6224,277,1647,95],"class_list":["post-66775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-800-kurdish-families-return-to-syrias-afrin-under-agreement","tag-breaking","tag-damascus-sdf-deal","tag-hasakah","tag-kurds","tag-return","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116403111466060947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}