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Trump Says Cease-Fire Between Turks, Kurds Holding: Syria Update
Syrians flee Ras al-Ain, Oct. 19.
Photographer: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images
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Turkey gave Kurdish fighters until late Tuesday to leave a narrow strip of territory in northeastern Syria or face becoming targets, putting aside for now its demand for the militia to withdraw from a much larger “safe zone.”
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces must exit the 120-kilometer (75-mile) area between the Syrian border towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn by 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, a senior Turkish military official said, requesting anonymity.