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Kurds step up efforts to form self-government in northeast Syria

The Syrian Democratic Council is forming an autonomous-area administration in parts of northern Syria controlled by US-backed Kurds and holding talks with the Syrian regime.
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BERLIN — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) has formed a new autonomous administration for northeastern Syria.

Meeting Sept. 6 in Ain Issa, in Raqqa province — where US forces and the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) remain — the SDC created the General Council of Self-Administration in Northern and Eastern Syria.

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