DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Syrian government forces deployed in Ain Issa on the front line with the Turkish forces following the deployment agreement between Damascus and the Kurdish-led forces, the Syrian media reported yesterday. 69 civilians in Syria, 128 SDF fighters, and 96 pro-Ankara factions were killed.

Syrian state television showed footage of what he said was the entrance to Ain Issa, where residents were seen welcoming the arrival of government forces.

Syrian media also reported that the Syrian army deployed in the town of Tabqa near Raqqa, in an area with a large hydroelectric dam.

The official Syrian News Agency (SANA), said yesterday that government forces entered the town of Tal Tamr near the Turkish border, northeast Syria, where Turkish forces are attacking for the sixth consecutive day.

The announcement of an agreement between Syrian Kurds and their government is a major shift in alliances that came after US President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of all US troops from the northern border region amid growing chaos.

This shift portends a potential conflict between Turkey and Syria and raises the specter of ISIS's return, after the United States ceded any remaining influence in northern Syria.

The Kurds, after Washington - their main backer - abandoned them, had no choice but to demand that the Syrian government deploy troops in border areas to halt Turkish progress that has displaced more than 130,000 people within days.

The move underscores the complexities of the conflict that has been tearing Syria apart since 2011. Damascus has long denounced self-administration and strongly criticized the Kurds' alliance with Washington, whose main backers were in fighting IS.

An army correspondent told AFP that the army had deployed on the outskirts of the town of Tal Tamr. He saw a number of soldiers carrying Syrian flags as civilians greeted them.

The official news agency (SANA) that «units of the Syrian Arab army enter the town of Tamr», which is located about 30 kilometers from Ras al-Ain in the province of al-Hasakeh, where the fighting is concentrated.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, some Syrian forces approached about six kilometers from the Turkish border.

In other border areas, units of Syrian Army forces, equipped with tanks and heavy machinery, deployed in the vicinity of Manbij, as well as near the cities of Tabqa and Ain Issa, according to the observatory.

Since the beginning of the offensive last Wednesday, Turkish forces and their pro-Syrian factions have been able to control a 120-kilometer border stretching from Tel Abyad (Raqqa) to the west of Ras Al-Ain.

Since Wednesday, the attack has killed 69 civilians in Syria, 128 SDF fighters, and 96 pro-Ankara factions.

Ankara, for its part, counted the killing of four Turkish soldiers in Syria, and 18 civilians, due to shells that accused Kurdish fighters of firing at border areas.

Ras Al-Ain witnessed yesterday violent clashes after the hysterical shelling with artillery and planes at night, according to the observatory.

And killed 10 civilians, the day before yesterday, a Turkish raid on a convoy, including journalists in Ras al-Ain, according to the observatory. Dozens of victims were taken to a hospital in Qamishli.

An AFP correspondent saw people suffering burns on the limbs and others groaning in pain as they looked for their wounds as families looked for their missing children.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday commented for the first time on the deployment of the Syrian army on the border, hours after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced that they had reached an agreement with Damascus to help them repel the Turkish invasion.

"He doesn't think there will be problems in Kobane," Erdogan said. "Putin has shown a positive approach." The Turkish president called the US withdrawal from Syria a "positive" step.

Erdogan said Turkish and pro-Syrian opposition forces were preparing an attack on the Syrian Kurdish city of Manbij, saying: "We are about to implement our decision on Manbij."

He explained that Turkey's goal was to return the city to the Arab population, which he said was "its legitimate population." This comes after the Syrian army deployed near the border with Turkey, on Monday, hours after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced the agreement with Damascus.

On the other hand, quoted by the Russian Information Agency, yesterday, a senior Russian lawmaker as saying that Ankara does not plan to control the territory of Syria by force, and therefore the possibility of the outbreak of an open Turkish-Syrian conflict.