Tue 27 August 2019:
The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syrian said Tuesday their forces had started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after a US-Turkish deal for a buffer zone there.
They said work had begun Saturday on “the first practical steps — in the Ras al-Ain area — in removing some earth mounds and withdrawing a group of (Kurdish) People’s Protection Units and heavy weapons.”
The so-called “safe zone” agreed by Washington and Ankara earlier this month aims to create a buffer between the Turkish border and Syrian areas controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a group Ankara sees as “terrorists.”
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