The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday said they had withdrawn from the border town of Ras al Ain under a US-brokered ceasefire deal, but a spokesman for Turkish-backed Syrian rebels said the withdrawal was not yet complete, Reuters reports.
Ras al Ain is one of two towns on the Turkish-Syrian border that have been the main targets of Turkey’s offensive to push back Kurdish fighters and create a “safe zone” inside Syria that is more than 30 km (20 miles) deep.
Turkey paused the offensive on Thursday night for five days under a deal agreed between President Tayyip Erdogan and …read more
Source:: Middle East Monitor
