The SDF overturns the Ain Issa agreement

The “Syria Democratic Forces” denied reaching any agreement regarding the town of Ain Issa in the countryside of Raqqa, after Russia announced that it had reached an agreement with the Turkish side that would allow the Russian police to be deployed in the region and to establish joint points with the Syrian army.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Tal Abyad Military Council, Riyadh al Khalaf, said last Monday: “All news and information circulating about reaching any agreement with the Russian forces are unfounded”.

“The map of control is still intact after 6 weeks of the Turkish military escalation,” the commander of the military council affiliated with the “SDF” added in a statement to “anha” agency.

The above comes hours after Russia announced an agreement after negotiations with the Turkish side.

According to the Russian Reconciliation Center in Hmeimim, the agreement provides for the deployment of Russian police in Ain Issa, and the establishment of three joint observation points with the Syrian army.

A media sources close to the “SDF” said that the agreement announced by Russia has not yet entered into the “SDF”, denying that it has withdrawn from its sites in the town.

So far, the scene of the town of Ain Issa is still hazy, especially with conflicting stories on the part of the “SDF” and Russia, which has been trying for weeks to enter the area, to stop the ground offensive by the Turkish army and the “Syrian National Army” militia factions.

The above coincides with artillery and missile strikes that Ain Issa was subjected to, in the past hours, according to several crossed sources.

Ain Issa had been subjected to a military escalation in the past weeks, by the Turkish army and the “Syrian National Army” militia.

The escalation led to talk about the imminence of a military operation on the town, in order to control it, as it is considered a strategic location, allowing the controlling party to control the international road “M4”, in the areas through which eastern Syria passes.

In conjunction with the aforementioned, the past days had witnessed a reported move between the “SDF” and the Syrian government.

While the former refused to withdraw from Ain Issa and emphasized that no observation point would be allowed to be deployed, the latter moved militarily and brought reinforcements to the region.