SDF commander Mazloum Abdi said at an event in Qamishli on 20 August 2026 that the phase of integrating the Autonomous Administration's military, security and administrative institutions into the structures of the Syrian state had ended and been fully completed, and that a new phase was beginning; he said the effort to secure Kurdish rights in the constitution would continue. Reporting describes tens of thousands of SDF personnel as now employees of Syrian government ministries, and sets out the steps behind the claim: a Kurdish governor appointed in Hasakah in February, Sipan Hamo appointed assistant defence minister in March, government forces entering Hasakah and Qamishli, state control of Qamishli airport and the oil fields, and more than 5,700 ISIS detainees transferred from camps in the northeast to Iraq. Ahmad al-Hilali, Hasakah deputy governor and spokesman for the presidential team overseeing integration, welcomed the announcement and described it as an acknowledgement of the SDF's dissolution, while officials cautioned that announcing an integration decision and completing its implementation on the ground are different things. Reporting in the same period describes administration in Hasakah province as still divided, with the government preparing arrangements to end the dual administration.
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