Securing critical positions next to Turkey’s border, Turkish Armed Forces and their allies were quick to gain the upper hand in several YPG-occupied areas of northern Syria.
A convoy of four armoured Turkish Armed Forces vehicles in the southeastern Sanliurfa province crossed the border and joined a US military convoy as they set off to patrol Syrian town of Tal Abyad.
Turkey's National Defence Ministry says efforts continue without delay for establishment of safe zone in northern Syria.
Specific details of the Turkey-US agreement over safe-zones in Syria have not been officially announced, but there is hardly an entity which hasn't presented its own version about what happened behind closed doors.
Turkey will fight terrorism in Idlib, Manbij and along the border like it is currently doing in Afrin, President Erdogan says.
The Syrian regime and the SDF are very close to driving Daesh out from the strategic city of Deir Ezzor, the last urban Daesh stronghold in Syria. But for the key players, the political dynamics are proving complicated.
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