Some Fighting Continues In Northern Syria Despite Turkish 'Pause'
There are a lot of unanswered questions, like whether Kurdish forces are actually withdrawing from the border. The Pentagon says U.S. ground forces won't be involved in enforcing a "safe zone."
by Merrit Kennedy
Oct 18, 2019
4 minutes
Updated at 4:32 p.m. ET
A U.S.-brokered deal with Turkey to pause its campaign against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria appears to be largely holding on its first day, though there have been reports of continue Turkish shelling in a key border town, Ras al-Ayn.
"The city is still being bombed despite an agreement made yesterday," Sozda Rakko from the Kurdish Red Crescent tells NPR's Jane Arraf. She says a hospital was bombed and there were clashes near the hospital. "A team of doctors go to the city this morning to get civilians out of the city, of course, but the Turkish army don't
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