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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley

Syrian forces expel Kurdish fighters as US strikes Islamic State targets

Syrian government forces stand guard over buses containing  Kurds to be transported to Syria’s north-east
Syrian government forces stand guard over buses containing Kurds to be transported to Syria’s north-east on Saturday. Photograph: Bakr Alkasem/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as US and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets.

An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish fighters and 60 wounded had been bussed to the Kurds’ de facto autonomous zone in the north-east from the Sheikh Maqsoud district, the last area of Aleppo to fall to the army.

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