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In the wake of US President Trump’s statement that “We will withdraw from Syria”, Chief of General Staff and Pentagon issued statements consecutively: “We continue to fight ISIS, there is no change”.

Human Rights Watch has said Turkey has routinely intercepted hundreds, and at times thousands, of asylum seekers at the Turkey-Syria border since at least December 2017 and deported them to Idlib governorate in Syria.

75 thousand of the civilians who left Afrin have settled in schools in Tal Refaat, the UN has stated. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria has called for the civilians to be provided urgent aid.

President of Russia Putin and President Erdoğan have held a meeting on phone about Syria. It was decided in the meeting that cooperation between Iran, Russia and Turkey should continue.