Fighting continued Friday morning in a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight.
Shelling and gunfire could be heard in and around Ras al-Ayn as smoke billowed from locations near the border with Turkey and the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar.
The fighting died down by mid-morning while smoke continued to rise.
Elsewhere along the border calm seemed to prevail, with no fighting heard along the border from Ras al-Ayn to Tal Abyad, a Syrian border town about 100 kilometers to the west.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported intermittent clashes in Ras al-Ayn but relative calm elsewhere since Thursday night, when Turkey and the US agreed to a five-day cease-fire to halt the Turkish offensive against Kurdish-led forces in the region.
The agreement reached after hours of negotiations in Turkey's capital of Ankara between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US Vice President Mike Pence requires the Kurdish fighters to vacate a swath of territory in Syria along the Turkish border.
That arrangement would largely solidify the position Turkey has gained after days of fighting.
The shelling Friday came even after the commander of Kurdish-led forces in Syria, Mazloum Abdi, told Kurdish TV late on Thursday: "We will do whatever we can for the success of the cease-fire agreement."