Washington increasingly sidelined as Turkey & Syria seek to squeeze out the American occupation...
The
delegation was headed by the foreign relations chief of the Autonomous
Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), Badran Jia Kurd, and
arrived in the capital on January 17. According to the report, the last
few meetings did not result in anything significant, but the "prevailing
impression" is that both sides are willing to continue along the path of dialogue, despite US warnings.
"These are preliminary understandings between the two sides, on things such as Syrian territorial integrity, the national flag, and the presidency of Bashar al-Assad," it states.