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Turkey has agreed to a five-day ceasefire in northern Syria to let Kurdish-led forces withdraw after US Vice-President Mike Pence and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for talks in Ankara. The US will help facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish-led troops from what Turkey terms a "safe zone" on the border, Mr Pence said, crediting Donald Trump's "strong leadership" for the agreement. It is unclear if the fighters of the Kurdish YPG will fully comply, however. UK-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said clashes were continuing in Ras al-Ain. Sinan Ulgen, the head of the EDAM think tank in Istanbul, explains what happens now. (Photo: Turkish-backed Syrian fighters in the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad. Credit: Bakr Alkasem/AFP)
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