The Syrian military on Tuesday told the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to leave areas near the Euphrates river as it encircled the region, days after pushing affiliated Kurdish fighters out of Aleppo, Syria's business and industrial centre.
An army statement said its forces had closed off the Dayr Hafir-Maskanah area and that the SDF should withdraw to east of the river.
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