Kurdish fighters leave Syrian border area
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A senior Kurdish official says his forces are complying with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire and are completing the withdrawal of forces from along a section of the shared border with Turkey
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Kurdish fighters withdrawing from 120km-wide area to comply with ceasefire deal set to expire Oct 22*
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TURKEY
IRAQ
SYRIA 
LEBANON
JORDAN
ISRAEL

Latakia 
Tartus
Idlib
Homs 
Damascus
Sparsely populated
Afrin 
Kobane 
Raqqa 
Hama  
Deir al-Zour
Ras al-Ain
River Euphrates
Aleppo 
Manbij
Qamishli 
Tal Abyad
Mediterranean Sea

100km 60 miles

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Al Tanf: Between 200 and 300 U.S. troops to remain at southern outpost. Plans for more than 700 other U.S. troops leaving Syria to go to western Iraq. Small residual force could stay in northeast Syria to fight IS militants
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Areas of control (Oct 21, 2019)

Syrian government and allies 

Kurdish-led forces

Syrian government and allies / Kurdish-led forces

Turkish proposed “safe zone”

Turkish-backed opposition and Turkish military

Other opposition forces

So-called Islamic State (IS) militants 
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Sources: Associated Press, LiveuaMap  *Approximate area shown © GRAPHIC NEWS