"If America vacates the area and especially the border area for certain we, as a self administration and as the SDF, will be forced to study all the available options," Badran Jia Kurd of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told Reuters.
"At that time we may hold talks with Damascus or the Russian side to fill the void or block the Turkish attack, so this may develop and there could be meetings and contacts in case of a vacuum," he said.