US News and World Report/Reuters: Kurdish-Allied Arab Fighters Move to Syria's Afrin From IS Fronts
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias are redeploying 1,700 fighters from fronts against Islamic State to the Afrin region to help fend off a Turkish offensive, they said on Tuesday.
"We have taken out around 1,700 fighters ... to defend Afrin against terrorism," said Abu Omar al-Edilbi, the spokesman for the militias, which have been fighting in eastern Syria as part of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
After announcing the redeployment, he told Reuters in Raqqa that 700 of the fighters had already gone to Afrin in northwest Syria. They were moving from frontlines further east, where the Kurdish-led SDF seized vast territory from Islamic State militants last year with the help of U.S. jets and special forces.
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