BEIRUT - Turkey-backed Syrian rebels said on Saturday they had cut a road connecting Syrian towns along a section of the border where the Turkish army is waging an offensive targeting Kurdish-led forces.
Officials with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) could not immediately be reached for comment.
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The road hugs the border in some places and in others extends a number of kilometers (miles) into Syria.
"This advance was on a new and surprise front ... between Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain. On this front, they were able to cut the roads linking together Suluk, Tel Abyad, Ras al-Ain with the villages in the area," he said in a statement to Reuters.
He said 18 villages had been captured in the advance.
