Sounds like Assad is consolidating his power over Syria.

Be interesting to see the deal he cut with the Kurds, who are desperate. A semi-autonomous area in Syria even though the Kurds have been pushing for their own country?

Such a deal would be good for Assad, so so for the Kurds who have wanted their own county since the British screwed them at the end of WW1, but it would keep the Turks from committing an Ethnic Cleaning Genocide against the Kurds like they did against the Armenians (and which they would LOVE to do).