Syrian Kurd fighters told the United States on Tuesday they have fully withdrawn from a safe zone under an agreement with Turkey ahead of a deadline, a US official said. Syrian Democratic Forces chief Mazlum Abdi told US Vice President Mike Pence in a letter that they have pulled “all ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday to discuss the situation in northern Syria, where Turkey has vowed to resume an offensive against Kurdish fighters. “The situation in the region is very severe,” Putin told Erdogan at the start of talks in the Russian ...