The New York Times reported that the deal – which was announced Sunday evening – would enable Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces to attempt to regain a foothold in the country's northeast. The Washington Post reported that the deal was reached after three days of negotiations between the Kurdish forces, Russian envoys and Damascus. SDF is an alliance composed primarily of Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian militias, as well as some smaller Armenian, Turkmen and Chechen forces. On Sunday, at least nine people, including five civilians, were killed in Turkish airstrikes on a convoy in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian Kurdish officials. "Very smart not to be involved in the intense fighting along the Turkish Border, for a change.

Source: Fox News October 14, 2019 04:30 UTC