Syrian government and Kurdish-led force exchange prisoners in a step toward easing tensions

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Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led unit person exchanged much than 400 prisoners portion of a woody reached earlier this twelvemonth betwixt the 2 sides

ByOMAR ALBAM Associated Press

ALEPPO, Syria -- Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led unit exchanged Monday much than 400 prisoners arsenic portion of a woody reached earlier this twelvemonth betwixt the 2 sides.

The speech successful the bluish metropolis of Aleppo is simply a measurement successful the process of confidence- gathering measures betwixt the authorities successful Damascus and the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. A akin speech took spot successful April.

Mulham al-Akidi, the lawman politician of Aleppo province, said 470 prisoners were released by some sides adding that the speech “aims to trim tensions connected the ground.” He added that if determination are much prisoners they volition beryllium released successful the adjacent future.

Yasser Mohammed Hakim said helium was detained six months agone aft helium drove into an SDF-controlled country by mistake. The antheral added that helium was held successful a jailhouse wherever members of the Islamic State group are held successful Syria.

“They enactment america with the biggest terrorists,” Hakim told The Associated Press aft his merchandise by the SDF. “I americium a civilian who took the incorrect road. I mislaid six months of my life.”

In March, Syria’s interim authorities signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authorization that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed unit determination into the Syrian army.

Since the woody was signed, the clashes betwixt the SDF and the Syrian National Army, a conjugation of Turkey-backed groups, astir stopped successful bluish Syria aft months of warring that near dozens killed oregon wounded connected some sides.

Syria’s caller rulers are struggling to exert their authorization crossed the state and scope governmental settlements with antithetic ethnic and spiritual groups successful the war-torn nation.