Around 300 more Russian military police have arrived in Syria, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday, under an accord between Ankara and Moscow which halted Turkey's military incursion into north-east Syria. Around 300 more Russian military police have arrived in Syria, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday, under an accord between Ankara and Moscow which halted Turkey's military incursion into north-east Syria. The deal, reached on Tuesday by Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, requires that Russian military police and Syrian border guards remove all Kurdish YPG militia from within 30km of the Turkish border by next Tuesday. Turkey launched its offensive against the YPG on October 9 after President Donald Trump ordered US forces out of north-east Syria. However, the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accused Turkey of launching a large land offensive on Thursday targeting three villages in north-east Syria despite the truce, forcing thousands more civilians to flee.

Source: Irish Independent October 26, 2019 01:41 UTC