Last Kurd forces leave Syria's Manbij, allied fighters say

The last members of a Kurdish militia pulled out on Sunday from the Syrian town of Manbij, allied Arab fighters said, under a deal reached to avoid clashes with Turkey. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) led the victorious 2016 offensive to rid Manbij of the Islamic State group and had kept military advisers in the town to train local forces. It announced last month it would begin withdrawing from the town as the local Manbij Military Council was capable of holding it on its own.

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