By Adam Morrow The Syrian government has agreed to a cease-fire with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led armed group, after clashes erupted over the weekend in the northwestern city of Aleppo. Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra said on Oct. 7 that he had met SDF commander Mazloum Abdi in Damascus, where […]
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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.