The Kurdish SDF confirms withdrawal, blaming "the outside world’s indifference to IS." Thousands of relatives of IS members are in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria.
US envoy Tom Barrack says that cooperation with the Kurds in the region has "expired", saying the regime in Damascus is friendly to the US - and that the fight against the terrorist movement IS has entered a new phase.
Negotiations between Syria's interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish-led SDF, have reportedly broken down.
Syria's interim president declared a ceasefire on Sunday after an offensive against Kurdish strongholds in the country.
