According to Kordpress, a senior Western official told the Middle East Eye website that Thomas Barak, the US special envoy, played a pivotal role in the recent developments in northeastern Syria and weakening the position of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). This happened after the military advance of the forces of the new Syrian government led by Ahmed al-Shora.

According to this official, Barak is one of the main supporters of ending the control of the SDF over the northeastern regions of Syria, and his diplomacy in this case has gone against the positions of the Central Command of the US Army (CENTCOM) and some Republican figures, including Senator Lindsay Graham.

This Western official has emphasized that Barak openly supports a "united Syria without separatism or federalism" and this approach has brought the US policy towards Syrian Kurdish forces into a new phase.

According to this report, there is a serious difference of opinion within the American governing structure about how to deal with the SDF. While CENTCOM and some Republican lawmakers were against the military operation against the Kurds, Barak supported this process and considered it in line with the consolidation of the central government in Damascus.

Middle East Eye had previously revealed in a report that Thomas Barak, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, had accused him of trying to drag Israel into Syria's internal conflicts; The accusation is evaluated in the context of the growing pressure of the United States to end the independent role of the Kurdish forces in the political and security structure of Syria.