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;Resize=(620)) Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the United States, urged them to accept.
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The U.S. envoy to Syria said Washington was confident the Syrian government could take over the country's fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.
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New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government.
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