Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian Army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive.
Quoting a senior Kurdish official, news agency Reuters reports that the government soldiers could enter the Afrin region within days and that they would deploy to some border positions. The agreement was also reported by Iraqi Kurdish media and a news agency which backs Syrian Kurdish forces.
Turkey regards the Kurdish fighters, just across its border in Afrin, as terrorists. It launched a major offensive against them last month.
There is currently no Syrian military presence in the area as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's soldiers withdrew from northern Kurdish areas in 2012.
The Kurdish group, People's Protection Units (YPG) cleared Islamic State terrorists from wide swathes of Syria.
Turkey is trying to oust the YPG from Afrin because it sees the group as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades.
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