This comes after Syria's government announced its first formal recognition of Kurdish national rights since 1946.

The Kurdish region remains a major obstacle to President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s consolidation of control over Syria.

Syria's army has seized swathes of the country's north, dislodging Kurdish forces from territory over which they held effective autonomy for more than a decade.

Syria's army took control of swathes of northern Syria and threatened to bomb parts of Raqa province on Saturday after Kurdish forces pulled back from territory they had held for over a decade.Kurdish authorities ordered a curfew in the Raqa region after the army designated a swathe of territory southwest of the Euphrates River a "closed military zone" and warned it would target what it said were several military sites.

Clashes were reported in other parts of northern Syria as government forces pushed east. Meanwhile, troops made their way into the town of Deir Hafer. The two towns changed hands after deadly fighting erupted earlier this month between government troops and the U.

Syrian troops swept through towns in the country's north on Saturday after an agreed withdrawal by Kurdish fighters there, but clashes erupted when the army kept

Syrian government forces have entered two northern towns after U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led fighters agreed to evacuate.

Syrian troops swept through dozens of towns ‌and ​villages in the country's north on Saturday ‌after Kurdish fighters withdrew under an agreement that aimed to avoid a bloody showdown between ​the rival forces.