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Easing tensions, Syrian Kurds retreat across Euphrates — US
Move comes after Turkey vows to continue operation until YPG militia pushed back; Obama to meet Erdogan in China
- Nockolay Mladenov addressing the UN Security Council by videoconference on August 29, 2016. (UN/Rick Bajornas)
- Pope Francis meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives, Monday, August 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool/AP)
- Illustrative: Yemenis inspect the site of a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group on August 29, 2016 at an army recruitment center in the Yemeni city of Aden. (AFP/Saleh al-Obeidi)
- Illustrative photo of Turkish troops returning from the Syrian border, in Karkamis, Turkey, Saturday, August 27, 2016. (Ismail Coskun, IHA via AP)
- Netherlands' Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, center, visits the damaged Turkish Parliament building in Ankara on August 29, 2016, following the July 15 failed coup attempt. (ADEM ALTAN / AFP)
- Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, Minister of Social Equality Gila Gamliel and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel speak to reporters following a tour of Israel's Bedouin communities in the Negev desert on August 29, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
- Palestinian children hold posters of Mohammed Halabi, the Gaza director of World Vision, a major US-based Christian NGO, during a protest to support him at Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip on August 29, 2016. (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)
- Netherlands' Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speak during a joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry's residence in Ankara August 29, 2016. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)