GAZIANTEP, Turkey — At least one peace-seeking pact appears to be moving forward in Syria. An agreement recently inked in Cairo is being touted as an unprecedented alliance between the Kurds and a Syrian opposition group.

The deal was reached Sept. 10 between Syria’s Tomorrow opposition movement, led by Ahmad Jarba, and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), with the aim of working jointly "toward building Syria’s future.” Jarba was backed by Saudi Arabia when he was president of the Syrian National Coalition (2013-14), while the Kurdish pro-self-rule PYD is said to be collaborating with the Syrian regime.

In the agreement, both parties call on all Syrian factions to search for rational ways out of the Syrian quagmire, expressing the belief that the current events in Syria represent a power struggle between the various Syrian factions and a distortion of the Syrian revolution. They also agreed that the only solution to the crisis lies in the Syrian opposition and regime sitting at the negotiating table under the auspices of the United Nations and other sponsor states, namely Russia and the United States.

In a Sept. 11 interview with ANF news agency, Jarba said the agreement with the self-rule administration manifests the strong ties that link Arabs and Kurds in Syria. Ahmad Awad, a member of Syria’s Tomorrow movement’s political bureau, said Sept. 16 that his group welcomes any agreement that puts an end to “the loss of life caused by the hellish Syrian war.”