MOSCOW - Russia warned Syrian Kurdish YPG forces on Wednesday they face further armed conflict with Turkey if they fail to comply with a Russian-Turkish accord calling for their withdrawal from the entire length of Syria's north-eastern border with Turkey.
The accord, which expands on a US-brokered deal last week, also underlines Putin's dominant influence in Syria and seals the return of his ally President Bashar al-Assad's forces to north-east Syria for the first time in years, by endorsing the deployment of Syrian border guards from noon on Wednesday.
Kurdish militia commanders have yet to respond to the deal reached in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, and it was not immediately clear how their withdrawal could be enforced. In a swipe at Washington, which has called into question how the deal will be guaranteed, Peskov said the United States had been the closest ally of the Kurdish fighters but had now betrayed them.
In a further sign of growing ties between Ankara and Moscow, which have alarmed the US administration, the head of Russia's defence sales agency was quoted by the Interfax news agency on Wednesday as saying Moscow could deliver more S-400 missile defence systems to Turkey.
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