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Syrian Kurds to Remove Fortification From Border With Turkey

Associated Press

   BEIRUT - A spokesman for the Kurdish-led U.S.-backed force in Syria
   says they have carried out a patrol near a border town with Turkey to
   select fortifications to be removed soon.

   Mustafa Bali of the Syrian Democratic Forces tweeted that the patrol
   occurred Tuesday near Tal Abyad.

   The SDF announced last week that it has begun withdrawing its fighters
   from the border towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn as part of a deal for
   a so-called safe zone in northeastern Syria involving the U.S. and
   Turkey.

   Bali tweeted that the SDF are working together with the U.S.-led
   coalition "to make the agreement successful and to ease tensions on the
   border."

   Turkey has been pressing for a safe zone to ensure security on its
   border running east of the Euphrates River toward the Iraqi border.

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