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Rudaw's Majeed Gly asked Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov if the Syrian Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) was included in the cessation of hostilities brokered between Moscow and Washington on Friday.
Lavrov answered by pointing out the details of the ceasefire agreement between the two powers has already been released to the public and emphasized that only the Islamic State (ISIS) and Jabhat al-Nusra are excluded from this agreement, any other group in Syria is welcome to participate in it.
The YPG has primarily been fighting ISIS but also has tense relations with some Syrian opposition groups, many of them in the Aleppo region, who charge that the YPG has collaborated with the Syrian regime.
The YPG has also clashed with that regime forces on occasion, particularly in the Syrian Kurdish city of Hasakah, where clashes got very violent last month but did not escalate into all-out war between the two sides last month.
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