Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) - The Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces fully withdrew from a Turkish-encircled town in northern
Syria on Sunday, in what appeared to be the start of a wider pullout under a ceasefire deal.
Ankara launched a cross-border attack against Syria's
Kurds on October 9 after the
United States announced a military pullout from the war-torn country's north.
A US-brokered ceasefire was announced late Thursday, giving Kurdish forces until Tuesday evening to withdraw from a buffer area Ankara wants to create on Syrian territory along its southern frontier.