Syria government steps in to halt Turkish assault on Kurds

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The Syrian regime sent troops towards the Turkish border on Monday to contain Ankara's deadly offensive against the Kurds, stepping in for US ...

TALL TAMR, Syria: The Syrian regime sent troops towards the Turkish border on Monday to contain Ankara's deadly offensive against the Kurds, stepping in for US forces due to begin a controversial withdrawal.

Wasting no time to fill the void, Moscow - already the top broker in Syria - clinched a deal between the Kurds and Damascus, whose ties had been icy since the minority threw its lot with Washington and unilaterally declared self-rule.," the Kurdish administration said in a statement late Sunday.

The main remaining flashpoint along the border was the town of Ras al-Ain, where Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been putting up stiff resistance againstAccording to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, the Turkish attack - which uses Syrian proxies on the ground - has already left 121 SDF fighters and 60 civilians dead.An air strike on a convoy that included SDF fighters, civilians and journalists Sunday killed at least 10 people in the Ras al-Ain area.

An internal document circulated by the Kurdish administration on Monday, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, stressed the deal with Damascus was purely of a military nature and did not affect the work of the semi-autonomous institutions.

 

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