Syria-Kurd negotiations collapse

Kurdish civilians gather with their weapons in the city of Qamishli on Tuesday as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) called for “young Kurds, men and women” both within and outside Syria to “join the ranks of the resistance”. Negotiations have collapsed between the Syrian president and the chief of the country’s Kurdish-led forces, a Kurdish official said, as the army deployed reinforcements to flashpoint areas in the north.
Syrian government troops thrust deeper into areas held by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, Syrian military sources said, pressing rapid gains against Kurdish ‌fighters who vowed to defend their remaining enclaves. Amid reported clashes, three Syrian sources said the US-led coalition against IS was negotiating for the government to ​take over an SDF-guarded camp housing thousands of civilians linked to the group near the town of Al Hol, close to the Iraqi border. ‌The Syrian military said it was advancing on Al Hol. — AFP