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Turkey Says 'No Need' to Resume Offensive Against Kurds

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   Turkey says there is "no need" to resume its military offensive against
   Syrian Kurds, saying the U.S. has told it that the Kurdish withdrawal
   from the northern Syrian border is complete.

   Turkey made its announcement hours after the five-day cease-fire
   expired in the Turkish military incursion into what had been a Kurdish
   safe zone in northern Syria.

   A Kurdish official said earlier that fighters had left the border
   region. A senior U.S. official said that the chief of the
   Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazlum Abdi, told Vice
   President Mike Pence that all Kurdish fighters have withdrawn.

   A senior U.S. official said Washington is working with Turkey to see
   the cease-fire become permanent.

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