Northern Syria Buffer Zone
The Northern Syria Buffer Zone (also known as the Safe Zone, Peace Corridor, or Security Mechanism) was a temporary Syrian Civil War demilitarized zone (DMZ) established on the Syrian side of the Syria–Turkey border in August 2019 to maintain security along the border and to dissuade a 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, prospective Turkish invasion of the self-proclaimed Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The DMZ was administered by the Kurds in Syria, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and their Syrian Democratic Forces military councils, military councils and enforced by United States Armed Forces and Turkish Armed Forces personnel. The buffer zone collapsed in early October 2019, before it was fully implemented, when Turkey dismissed the agreement on 1 October and the United States abandoned the effort on 6 October after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria, allowing for Turkish Presiden ...
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