Clashes amid efforts for Kurd pullout from Syria border town

AKCAKALE, Turkey -- Kurdish-led fighters and Turkish-backed forces clashed sporadically Sunday in northeastern Syria amid efforts to work out a Kurdish evacuation from a besieged border town, the first pull-back under the terms of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Turkey said one of its soldiers was killed in the day's violence. The planned evacuation of Kurdish fighters and civilians from the town of Ras al-Ayn would open the way to a pull-out of the fighters from a broader swathe of territory along t