Some Kurdish fighters, commanders withdraw from Syria's Aleppo, sources say

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Some Kurdish fighters including some of their commanders and their families were secretly ferried out of Syria's Aleppo overnight to the country's northeast, three Syrian security sources said on Saturday.

The sources said some 300 Kurdish fighters chose to remain in the district of Sheikh Maksoud to fight.

Ilham Ahmad, who heads the Kurdish administration's foreign relations department, had overnight welcomed a deal to “safely redeploy fighters from Sheikh Maksoud” to eastern Syria, but there was no public announcement of a completed withdrawal.