(MENAFN) The US has agreed to gradually departure the Kurdish fighters from the town of Manbij in Northeastern Aleppo after increasing pressures by Ankara and as the Turkish army declared plans to expand its mission against the Kurds in the region, a Turkish paper reported on Tuesday.
The Turkish-language Hurriyet Daily News quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the US has voiced consent over the gradual withdrawal of the Kurdish gunmen from Manbij in two days of talks between delegations from Washington and Ankara on
March 8-9.
The resolution of the plan will be made during the Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meeting, set to be held in Washington March 19.
Other Turkish sources said that the US tried to discuss a halt in Operation Olive Branch by the Turkish forces in Northern Syria during the talks with Ankara officials as a precondition for the Kurdish retreat from Manbij.
No independent source has yet confirmed the revelation.
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