Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria have declared a new province including a town on the border with Turkey captured from Islamic State in June, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday, October 21, formalizing Kurdish control over the border area, Reuters reports.
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia captured the town of Tel Abyad with the help of U.S.-led air strikes. The new administrative province, or canton, is the fourth declared by the Kurdish administration in northern Syria.
"It has been officially announced as a canton," said Delil Osman, a media official in the Kurdish-led administration. He was speaking via Skype, and did not say when the announcement was made.
