The Kurdish-led SDF has agreed to withdraw from Manbij following an American-brokered deal
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Turkish-backed Syrian Nationwide Military (SNA) have reached a ceasefire after days of preventing for the management of the northern metropolis of Manbij, high SDF commander, Mazloum Abdi, has introduced.
“We’ve reached a ceasefire settlement in Manbij with US mediation, with a purpose to protect the safety and security of civilians,” Abdi wrote on X within the early hours of Wednesday. He added that native SDF fighters “shall be withdrawn from the world as quickly as attainable.”
“Our purpose is a ceasefire throughout Syria and to enter right into a political course of for the way forward for the nation,” Abdi wrote.
The Kurdish-dominated SDF reported earlier that SNA has been attacking Manbij, a metropolis to the northeast of Aleppo, since November 27 and was advancing in the direction of Kobani, a Kurdish stronghold close to the border with Türkiye. The assault coincided with the final offensive by Syrian armed opposition teams, which culminated over the weekend with the seize of Damascus and the ouster of President Bashar Assad.
In keeping with Turkish media, SNA was conducting operations towards Kurdish militias which can be affiliated with SDF and are thought-about terrorist teams in Türkiye.
Syria has remained a divided nation since 2011, when rise up towards Assad progressed right into a full-blown civil warfare.
The uneasy stability established by the 2020 truce radically shifted earlier this month after the opposition dominated by Islamists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a lightning offensive capturing a number of main cities, together with Damascus and Aleppo. The SDF launched its personal offensive within the jap a part of the nation, hoping to capitalize on the collapse of the Syrian authorities military.
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