Kinan Sultan, Baladi News
A new agreement is about to be accomplished north of Syria regarding the control of regime forces over the region expanding from Aleppo through the southern countryside of al-Raqqa reaching Deir al-Zor, which is the region that regime forces managed to keep under their control over the past seven years.
Well-informed media sources talked about an agreement that took place on Friday between regime forces and SDF militias in the village of "al-Ekirchy" south of al-Raqqa which stipulated that regime forces are allowed to control the village and penetrate into the southern and eastern countryside of al-Raqqa.
After controlling the eastern countryside of Aleppo, regime forces managed to advance on vast regions on the western and southern countryside of al-Raqqa, which contain oil and gas wells, especially after ISIS withdrew from those regions. All of this was under the Russian auspices and air cover as the latter is now designing the regime's military operations on most of the Syria territories.
The regime aims at advancing from a northwestern axis towards Deir al-Zor reaching the Syrian-Iraqi borders.
Regarding the Russian-American agreement, the political analyst, Hamad Shihad al-Talla'a, said: " I have already talked about the US-Russian plan regarding partition and I have pointed out that Deir al-Zor may be controlled by three parties: the Kurdish forces, regime forces and the US-backed forces".
He explained saying: "Regime forces will be allowed to connect a land line with Iraq through Deir al-Zor which means the necessity to seize control over regions west of the Euphrates, while the Kurdish units will control the northeastern part of al-Raqqa in order to create a Kurdish territory that expands from eastern Euphrates till the Iraqi borders while the eastern part of Deir al-Zor reaching al-Boukamal east and al-Suwayda'a southwest will be joined in a kind of Federalism that could be established by the US according to its plan for the region.
The analyst added: "If America puts aside the project of the new Middle East, I think that the understandings between the regime and SDF will be included within a US-Russian plan to give the entire Syrian territories to a transitional regime; it's base will be Assad's regime, but decorated with a political and military opposition that is agreed upon by the two international sponsors of the operation".