Turkey views the Kurds, who are American allies, as a terrorist threat, and began attacking them within hours of President Trump announcing the U.S.’s withdrawal from the area. Trump later bragged that he’d brokered a five-day ceasefire between Turkey and the fighters. That ceasefire would’ve expired Tuesday, but now, Turkey has said it will not attack the Kurds for another 150 hours as it forces them out of the land they’ve long fought to hold on to.

Russia and its ally Syria have also said they’ll start “removing Kurdish militias from the border region beginning at noon Wednesday,” per The Washington Post. The area will then become a neutral zone between Syria and Turkey, expanding upon a narrower strip of Turkey’s border that the U.S. and the country had agreed to establish as a buffer.

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