Syria: Kurdish forces evacuate civilians from Aleppo region after rebel attack

Syrian Kurds trying to escape an attack by Ankara-backed armed groups in their enclave began today to reach safer areas controlled by Kurdish forces, a local official said. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had earlier said they were working to remove Kurdish civilians from various areas of the northern province of Aleppo. The decision comes after pro-Turkish groups seized a city home to tens of thousands of Kurds and while rebel groups led by radical Islamists launched a blitzkrieg attack on November 27 against government-held areas in northern Syria. Pro-Turkish groups announced on Sunday that they had captured the strategic town of Tal Rifaat in northern Syria, near the Turkish border, which had been under the control of Kurdish forces. “A small group of citizens arrived in Tamka. The other people who have been displaced will arrive successively in the next hours,” he told French […]
Source: News Beast

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