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Turkey is blocking border evacuation: Kurdish commander to AFP

BEIRUT, Oct 19, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Turkey is sabotaging a US-brokered
ceasefire deal by preventing Kurdish forces from evacuating a flashpoint
border town in northeastern Syria, the top Kurdish commander told AFP
Saturday.

“The Turks are preventing the withdrawal from the Ras al-Ain area,
preventing the exit of our forces, the wounded and civilians,” Mazloum Abdi,
head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said in a phone interview.

BSS/AFP/ARS/1959 hrs