On December 8, the autumn of Bashar al-Assad’s regime was broadly celebrated throughout Syria, but in addition in neighbouring international locations which have been residence to tens of millions of Syrian refugees for greater than a decade. Though Assad’s departure has revived hopes of a return from Iraqi Kurdistan, the place nearly 300,000 Syrian Kurds nonetheless reside principally in camps, the query of the Kurds’ place within the new Syria just isn’t but clear. They’ve excessive expectations of the negotiations with Damascus, at a time when a union is taking form between Kurdish political teams, which had till now been deeply divided. FRANCE 24’s Josh Vardey, Marie-Charlotte Roupie and Stella Martany report.
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