Turkey and the United Stateshave agreed to establish a joint operations centre in order to coordinate and manage the setting up of a safe zone in northern Syria, Al Jazeera reported.
The agreement on Wednesday came after three days of intense negotiations between officials from the two NATO allies in Turkey's capital, Ankara.
A joint statement by the Turkish defence ministry and the US embassy in Ankara said the two sides had agreed to set up the Turkey-based operations centre "as soon as possible" and that the safe zone "would become a "peace corridor", without providing futher details.
It added that the delegations had agreed to address "the rapid implementation of initial measures to address Turkey's security concerns", adding that "every effort shall be made so that displaced Syrians can return to their country".
The statement did not specify how and when the zone would be created, but it appeared to avert, for the time being, a threatened Turkish operation into the region east of the Euphrates River in Syria.
