U.S. Starts Troop Pullout From Turkey's Border In Northeastern Syria
October 07, 2019 05:45 GMT Updated October 07, 2019 15:29 GMT
U.S. forces have started pulling back from areas along the Syrian border with Turkey, reports say, hours after the United States announced it will step aside for an imminent Turkish operation against Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria.
Reuters quoted an unidentified U.S. official as saying on October 7 that U.S. forces had evacuated two observation posts at Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain.
A British-based group monitoring the war in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, confirmed that U.S. forces had pulled back from key positions in the two localities.
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