The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Kurdish militants began to withdraw from the Syrian-Turkish border in accordance with the Russian-Turkish agreement on northeastern Syria.Al Jazeera correspondent in Tel Abyad said that the national army of the Syrian opposition was able to penetrate a depth of 25 km south of Tel Abyad after the withdrawal of Kurdish militants.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Maan al-Khader said that the armed forces of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces withdrew today from five villages in the Tal Abyad area towards the countryside of Ain al-Arab.This withdrawal will be the Kurdish forces have moved out of the administrative borders of the area of ​​Tel Abyad, according to field sources of the island.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Omar al-Haj in the Turkish town of Surug, opposite the Syrian city of Ain al-Arab, said he had seen for the second day in a row the flags of the Kurdish People's Protection Units and the "Syrian Democratic Forces" flying in the city of Ain al-Arab.

He added that the Russian forces, which entered with the Syrian border guards yesterday to Ain al-Arab - within the framework of the Russian-Turkish agreement - only to station in the old radio building, and took the Russian military police location.

SDF fighters withdraw from Ain al-Arab, which borders Turkey (Anatolia)

Sochi Agreement
Under the Russian-Turkish agreement signed in the Russian city of Sochi, the withdrawal of Kurdish forces within 150 hours from a border area with Turkey at a depth of 30 kilometers and 440 kilometers, which means the abandonment of Kurdish militants in several major cities under their control, such as Ain al-Arab and Tel Abyad.

Turkey says it has assurances from Russia that Kurdish forces will emerge from the area from Tel Abyad to Ain al-Arab, and from the area from Ras al-Ain to the Maliki area on the Turkish-Iraqi border, to be replaced by Russian and Syrian regime forces.

In the first phase, Turkey wants to establish a safe area in northern Syria between Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad, to which a large part of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees residing on its territory since the Syrian crisis began in 2011.

Hasakah countryside
The Syrian Press Agency for the Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said that the "Syrian Democratic Forces" withdrew today from six points between Darbasiyah and Amuda in the countryside of al-Hasakah on the border with Turkey.

The official news agency RIA quoted an official in the "Syrian Democratic Forces" that the gunmen of these forces withdrew 32 kilometers from the border with Turkey.

Under the agreement with Ankara, Russian troops began their first patrol in the northern areas near the border with Turkey, where they entered the eye of Arabs, filling a vacuum left by the withdrawal of US troops, while US President Donald Trump praised the Russian-Turkish agreement.

Turkish military convoy secures road near border with Syria (Getty Images)

Russian reinforcements
In a related context, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said that Moscow will send 276 military police and 33 units of military equipment to Syria within a week.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu briefed Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the so-called SDF, on plans to expand patrol roads and increase the number of Russian military police units near the Syrian-Turkish border.

The Reuters news agency quoted an official in the "Syrian Democratic Forces" readiness to consider joining the army of the Syrian regime.

The spring of peace
On October 9, Turkish and Syrian opposition forces launched a military operation in northern Syria, dubbed the "spring of peace", to expel the SDF from the area in preparation for the establishment of a safe area.

On October 17, Turkey agreed, under an agreement with the United States, to cease its offensive for five days to allow Kurdish militants to withdraw from the borders of the alleged safe area.

In another shift, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed yesterday that troops from both sides will begin to oversee the removal of YPG fighters with their weapons at least 30 kilometers inside Syria's depth.