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.
