US delegation to Ankara .. International coalition withdraws from Manbij and the opposition is advancing

US-led coalition forces to fight ISIS have announced their withdrawal from the city of Manbij, saying they are carrying out a thoughtful withdrawal from northeast Syria, while U.S.

For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Syrian regime forces seized a thousand square kilometers around the city of Manbij.

Local sources told Al Jazeera that Russian military police vehicles entered the city, which was under the control of the so-called "Syrian Democratic Forces" in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

In a related development, a US official said that US military aircraft flew in a show of force in Syria to disperse Turkish-backed forces near US soldiers, he said.

Sources of the island that about eight US military vehicles stationed at the ends of the bridge "Qara Cossack" in the eastern countryside of Manbij, to prevent regime forces from moving to the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) east of the Euphrates River.

The sources said that the American position on the bridge came after the stationing of Syrian regime points in the eastern countryside of Manbij on the opposite side of the American forces on the Euphrates River. The regime also deployed troops in the northern countryside of Manbij.

It is noteworthy that the bridge "Qara Cossack" away from the city of Ain al-Arab Kobani, the most important strongholds of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces east of the Euphrates, about 25 km.

For his part, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party, Ahmed Suleiman, said that the Syrian Democratic Forces will enter with the Syrian army in a joint security mechanism, as part of a deal with Damascus.

Suleiman said the SDF fighters do not need to withdraw their troops from areas in the north of the country, which are still under their control.

"The agreement has not been officially announced by the parties, nor is the Russian side leading the negotiations," Suleiman told Sputnik.

However, the military agreement revolves around common mechanisms to prevent the continuation of what he called Turkish aggression in the eastern part of the Euphrates.

He added that the SDF will be part of the Syrian defense system; which will depend on the nature of the deployment of Syrian army forces.

Earlier Tuesday, the Syrian armed opposition claimed control of 11 villages in the vicinity of the cities of Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ain east of the Euphrates in northern Syria.

The sources of the island has confirmed that the clashes renewed between the opposition forces and what is known as the Syrian Democratic Forces in a number of neighborhoods of Ras al-Ain in western Hasaka countryside.

The correspondent quoted sources in the Syrian armed opposition as saying that elements of the so-called SDF rely on tunnels dug under the city in their confrontations with the Syrian armed opposition, and on snipers deployed in the neighborhood churches where these forces are holed up.

American delegation
US President Donald Trump announced that his deputy Mike Pence will head a delegation to Turkey on Wednesday with the participation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national security adviser Robert O'Brien and special envoy to Syria James Jeffrey.

Pence will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday to urge him to cease fire on the Syrian border in preparation for a negotiated settlement, a White House statement said.

The statement added that Pence will make clear to Erdogan that US sanctions will not be lifted from Turkey until after the cessation of hostilities and a settlement.

In the context, Reuters quoted a senior State Department official as saying that Washington's first goal is to seek through diplomacy for a ceasefire in Syria.

He added that all US forces have now left Manbij. The US official confirmed that there had been no successful large-scale escapes of ISIS detainees in Syria.

He noted that the United States still controls airspace in northeastern Syria.

For his part, said Democratic Senator Chris Murphy that Trump allowed Turkey to intervene in Syria, and he issued a press release in which he proudly announced the "Turkish invasion," as the senator put it.

Murphy said in a tweet on Twitter that "Trump brushed the roses on the ground to welcome the Turks"; he said it was crazy to invite Turkey to the invasion and then punish it.

Russian positions
Meanwhile, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian military statement as saying that the Russian and US defense ministers discussed the situation in Syria by telephone.

The Kremlin's envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiyev, said on Tuesday that Turkey had no right to deploy its troops permanently in Syria.

He added that according to previous agreements, the Turkish army could penetrate only five to 10 kilometers into Syrian territory.

"Moscow does not agree to the Turkish military operation in Syria," he said.