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Kurdish forces start pullback from Syria-Turkey border
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- Kurdish forces in north-eastern Syria have left several positions along the long border with Turkey on Thursday
More in news
- Russian forces have started patrols along the flashpoint border, filling the vacuum left by a U.S. troop withdrawal.
- The withdrawal of U.S. troops had effectively handed back a third of the country to the Russia-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad
- S. President Donald Trump has praised the agreement reached in Sochi by Turkey and Russia.
- The deal signed in the Black Sea resort in Sochi by Syria’s two main foreign brokers gives Kurdish forces until 29th October to withdraw to a line 30 km from the border.
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces had pulled out of some areas at the eastern end of the border on Thursday
- Fighters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) — the main component of the SDF — remained in many positions along the 440 km border.
Source
The Hindu