Yesterday, Monday , the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces, began to withdraw from neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo, towards two areas in northern and eastern Syria .
The exit process comes under an agreement reached with the armed opposition factions, which took control of the city and all the villages and towns in its countryside .
A military source familiar with the agreement told the American website “Al-Hurra” that the exit process “began through equipped buses, and that the militants’ destination will be Manbij and Raqqa .”
In contrast, he added that the armed factions “left the Kurdish residents of the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods the option of staying .”
Reuters reported earlier on Monday that Kurdish forces had begun withdrawing from the northern and eastern parts of Aleppo .
For his part, the source indicated that the agreement concerns the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods, and militants who were stationed in villages and towns affiliated with the city of Tal Rifaat in the northern Aleppo countryside .
The number of Kurds, both armed and civilians, in the two aforementioned neighborhoods in Aleppo and the villages and towns of Tal Rifaat is approximately 200,000 people .
Their exit comes after the armed opposition factions took control of the entire city of Aleppo, including neighborhoods, countryside, barracks, military units, and airports.
