Local residents pose for a photo as Syrian government army troops rolled into Manbij, Syria, a flashpoint town west of the Euphrates River that Turkey had been aiming to capture and wrest from Kurdish control. Syrian forces moved into the area as part of a deal that has seen regime troops deploy in several Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria's north to protect the region from an assault by Turkish forces.
- Package: Syria Manbij
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Manbij, Syria
- Event date: 15.10.2019
- Date published: 15.10.2019
- Author: Mikhail Alaeddin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 2016x1462px, 1.6Mb
- Job-ID: 1f1be58954d74cf6