Syrian regime forces on Monday approached the border with Turkey, where Ankara troops and Syrian surrogates are still fighting against a Kurdish militia, an AFP correspondent said. The forces have deployed on the outskirts of Tal Tamr, south of the border town of Ras al-Ain where fighting is taking place, said the AFP correspondent. The Syrian official agency Sana has confirmed the arrival of "units of the Syrian Arab Army" in Tal Tamr, located about thirty kilometers from Ras al-Ain.
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Kurds have announced Sunday reached an agreement with Damascus
Since 9 October, Turkey and Syrian deputies have been carrying out an offensive in northern Syria, to remove the Kurdish militia from the People's Protection Units (YPG), a so-called "terrorist" organization by Ankara, from the border. Faced with the progress of the Turkish offensive, the Kurds announced Sunday to have reached an agreement with Damascus for the deployment of the Syrian Army near the border "in support of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)," the main alliance of combatants Kurds and Arabs, dominated by the YPG.
Long marginalized and victims of discrimination by the central power of Damascus, the Kurds have established de facto autonomy over large areas of the north and north-east, thanks to the conflict unleashed in 2011. Damascus refuses this autonomy and, by the In the past, the regime even went so far as to call the minority fighters "traitors" for their alliance with Washington, which supported the Kurdish forces in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.