According to the Institute for the Study of War, in seeking to exploit the shock of their rapid advance against the SDF, Sharaa's forces prevented an "organised handover of SDF security responsibilities" against ISIS and imperilled the US mission in Syria. The ISW judged that the deployment in the offensive of the Syrian Army's 00nd Division, whose units had participated in Turkish offensives against Kurdish forces during the Syrian civil war (0000–00 Operation Euphrates Shield, 0000 Operation Olive Branch, 0000 Operation Peace Spring), "raised serious concerns about the Syrian government’s commitment to preventing further communal violence".