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The Kurdish forces that resisted in the border city of Ras al Ain the Turkish offensive withdrew this Sunday to the south of the territory fulfilling one of the main demands made by Ankara , thus giving way to the current ceasefire five days can Become something more permanent. Local media and the Afp agency confirmed that a convoy of more than 50 vehicles could enter the besieged population, pick up the injured from the hospital and leave with a large number of combatants .

While they were leaving the place they could observe how the health center was consumed by a huge fire. Syrian paramilitaries fighting under Turkey's orders confirmed that there is an agreement to allow their adversaries to leave the population that had been under siege for more than 10 days .

A person in charge of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces that control the Kurds, Redur Khalil, had recognized on Saturday that his militiamen were going to retreat in the strip of territory that goes from the city of Tel Abyad in the west to Ras el Ain.

The operation would leave an area 120 kilometers long and a little more than 30 wide in the hands of the Turkish army and the Syrian paramilitaries fighting at their side. Khalil clarified, however, that this measure will only be applied in that region and not in the 449 kilometers of border between Turkey and the so-called Northeast Syria Autonomy as required by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

"We only accept the American version (of the ceasefire) not that of Turkey," he said. The Kurdish military acknowledged that the withdrawal is a significant blow to his forces . "This agreement means giving Syrian territory to a foreign country. It is not good. It is bad for us. We have nothing to gain except international sympathy," he said.

Erdogan also demands the withdrawal of the Syrian army troops that have approached the border between the two countries, to allow that geographical space to become the destination of the almost 3.6 million refugees of the Arab nation who are installed in Turkey. The resolution of the present crisis is now under an agreement between Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin , with whom he will meet on Tuesday to discuss precisely this issue.

The Kurdish withdrawal occurred in parallel to the withdrawal of new units of the US army that left their largest base in northeastern Syria, located in Sarrin, near Raqqa. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), an imposing convoy of 70 armored vehicles loaded with military equipment and escorted by helicopters traveled along the Tal Temir road to Hasaka.

Another group of units crossed the city of Qamishli in the morning, as this newspaper could verify. The OSDH explained that the Americans still maintain several contingents in Deir Ezzor and the aforementioned Hasaka.

Washington has announced that the thousand soldiers who were in Syria collaborating with the forces of the SDF will withdraw entirely to neighboring Iraq, where they will join the nearly 5,000 US military installed in that country.

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