In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities.

Abdi, by contrast, came to leadership via associations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organization that Turkey and many Western countries consider a terrorist group.Therefore, depending on how one views these organizations,

Crowds of Kurds have taken to the streets in north east Syria to celebrate a breakthrough deal signed between Kurdish officials and the new Syrian government. The jubilant scenes were in stark contrast to the violent clashes along the coast, where hundreds of civilians are said to have been killed in revenge attacks by government supporters.