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December 18, 2024

U.N. Envoy Warns Syria's War "Has Not Ended" as Turkish-Backed Forces Challenge Kurdish Fighters
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A United Nations envoy has warned Syria's civil war has not yet ended,
despite the removal of President Bashar al-Assad by opposition fighters.
On Tuesday, U.N. Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told the U.N. Security
Council that Turkish-backed armed groups are continuing to battle
Kurdish groups for control of several areas of northern Syria.
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said it had brokered an extension
of a ceasefire deal between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian
forces around the northern Syrian city of Manbij.


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