Washington 0
22 October 2019

After the five-day ceasefire between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds expired, Russia and Turkey inked a memorandum of understanding stating that “Russian military police and Syrian border guards will … facilitate the removal of YPG elements and their weapons to the depth of 30km (19 miles) from the Turkish-Syrian border, which should be finalized in 150 hours”.

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