The UN Security Council called on Tuesday for the implementation of an “inclusive and Syrian-led” political process, following the flight of former regime president Bashar al-Assad, demanding that the Syrian people be able to “determine their future.”

In a statement issued unanimously by its fifteen members, including especially Russia, an ally of Assad, and the United States, the Council appealed to Syria and its neighbors to refrain from any actions that would undermine regional security.

For its part, the US State Department said on Tuesday that the United States is working with a number of United Nations bodies to ensure accountability and that Syrians get answers to their questions regarding mass graves, detention and torture sites in Syria.

During his regular press briefing, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called for answers to the families of individuals who were subjected to disappearance, torture, and killing in Syria, and for those who did so to be held accountable.

Miller said that the administration of US President Joe Biden is working with the Independent Foundation for Missing Persons in Syria, among other United Nations bodies.

The former US ambassador for war crimes issues, Stephen Rapp, said on Tuesday that the evidence that emerged from the sites of mass graves in Syria revealed the "death machine" that the state managed during the era of former regime president Bashar al-Assad.

According to Rapp, who worked in the US State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice, more than 100,000 people have been tortured and killed since 2013.

It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed since 2011, when Assad's crackdown on protests against his rule turned into a full-scale civil war.

"demilitarized zone"

On the other hand, the commander of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" Mazloum Abdi expressed on Tuesday the readiness of his forces to submit a proposal to establish a "demilitarized zone" in the city of Kobani (Ain al-Arab) on the border with Turkey, at a time when Washington announced the extension of the truce between the Kurdish forces and the Kurdish forces. Pro-Turkish in the Manbij area.

The Manbij region, which has an Arab majority in the northeast of Aleppo Governorate, is controlled by the Manbij Military Council, which includes local fighters, working under the umbrella of the “Syrian Democratic Forces,” whose backbone is the Kurds and is supported by Washington.

Abdi said in a post on the X website, “In confirmation of our firm commitment to achieving a comprehensive ceasefire throughout Syria, we announce our readiness to submit a proposal to establish a demilitarized zone in the city of Kobani, with the redistribution of security forces under American supervision and presence.”< /p>

This came at a time when the United States announced that the mediation of its leaders had led to the extension of a truce between pro-Turkish fighters and Syrian Kurdish forces in the Manbij region, and that it was seeking to establish a broader understanding with Ankara.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement to reporters that the truce in Manbij, which had expired, "has been extended until the end of the week," stressing that Washington "will work to extend the ceasefire to the maximum extent possible in the future."