Kurdish-Arab tensions in Syria are not going away

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On October 2, 2026, several hundred pro-government Arab residents staged a demonstration in the city of Hasaka, the provincial capital of a Kurdish-majority province of the same name in northeast Syria, demanding an end to the Syrian Democratic Forces’ continued control of the area. A similar protest is expected on October 9. The demonstrations are striking because the Syrian Democratic Forces has dissolved and integrated into the Syrian state as part of a deal with Damascus that significantly strengthened the central government’s control of the region. These protests suggest that the January …