Sipan Hamo

Sipan Hamo is the general commander of the People's Defense Units, and a member of the general command of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
In October 2017, he travelled to Russia to meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief-of-Staff Valery Gerasimov over the future of Deir ez-Zour and Raqqa. Hamo was the highest SDF officer to travel to Russia since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. In February 2018, Hamo commented on Russia's lack of intervention in response to Turkey's Operation Olive Branch entering SDF-held Afrin canton, stating that Russia was making a strategic mistake.
A photo of Hamo was first published in August 2025 by the pro-Kurdish Turkish media outlet Nûmedya24 which conducted the first publicized interview with Hamo.
In an extensive interview with the SDF Media Center on 18 October 2025, Hamo emphasized that the upcoming steps taken by the Damascus government will be the decisive factor in determining the fate of the integration process — “whether it accelerates, slows down, or perhaps freezes entirely”.