The US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack told The Associated Press after meetings in Damascus Wednesday that Syria’s central government and the Kurdish administration controlling the country’s northeast remain at odds over how to merge their forces together into a single army.

US envoy Barrack says Syrian and Kurdish leaders at odds how to merge forces

The US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack told The Associated Press after meetings in Damascus Wednesday that Syria’s central government and the Kurdish administration controlling the country’s northeast remain at odds over how to merge their forces together into a single army.