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Three months after the fall of Bashar Al Assad,
Syria's interim president has been struggling to unite the country.
In a landmark breakthrough,
the government struck a deal to merge the Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces
into state institutions.
The agreement will see the SDF cede control of civil
and military institutions in northeastern Syria,
including border crossings, airport and oil and gas fields.
It guarantees the rights of all Syrians in the country's political process,
regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds.
While Syrian Kurds celebrate the deal with Damascus,
residents on the northwestern coast remain wary
after days of sectarian violence that killed over 1,000 people.
The government blamed Provo Assad groups
for instigating the violence and said the security threats had already been neutralized.