Powerful YPG militia said on Wednesday Russian troops have been deployed in territory it controls in the northern countryside of Aleppo city.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units said in statement the Russian units will do a monitoring mission while experts believe that Kurdish militias have fears of Turkey and its allied Free Syrian Army, trying to have a Russian legitimacy after the US deployment in the area.
On Tuesday, near the Turkish border, US troops came under direct attack by Turkish-backed rebels, a military official with the coalition fighting ISIS told CNN. The official said that while US troops returned fire there were no casualties on either side.
The coalition believes the attackers are part of the Turkish-backed opposition forces, a loose grouping of Arab and Turkmen fighters that have helped the Turkish military clear ISIS from the Turkish-Syrian border area, CNN said.
Many of Turkey-supported forces have clashed with the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in a struggle for influence in the region.
While Turkey has in the past backed these fighters with tanks, airstrikes and special forces, the coalition official made it clear that Turkish soldiers were not involved in the recent attacks on US personnel.
