BEIRUT—More than a dozen Syrian rebel and militant groups on Monday accused the country’s main Kurdish militia of committing “ethnic cleansing” against Arabs and Turkmen in northern Syria, a charge strongly denied by the Kurds.
The accusation, which was not backed by evidence of ethnic or sectarian killings, came as Kurdish fighters reached the outskirts of a strategic Islamic State-held town on the Turkish border.
Thousands of refugees, most of them Sunni Muslim Arabs, have fled to Turkey in the past two weeks as the main Kurdish fighting force known as the YPG has pushed to dislodge IS militants from Tal Abyad, aiming to sever a key supply line for the extremists’ nearby de facto capital.
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