Syria: Kurdish forces pull out of besieged town
By DW
27 October 2019 |
11:02 am
Kurdish fighters and civilians have begun evacuating from the besieged Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn as part of a US-brokered deal with Turkey. But their exit still leaves the longer-term fate of the deal in question.
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