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The arrests followed clashes in the Upper Nile state between government forces and a militia known as the White Army.

A Kurdish-led militia alliance which controls north-eastern Syria has agreed a deal to integrate all military and civilian institutions into the Syrian state, the country's presidency says.

Soldiers on patrol were met with peasant militias and booby traps.

The ongoing fighting in Upper Nile is between the armed forces and the White Army, an ethnic militia that was allied with Machar during the war.

The arrests follow reports that the White Army militia had seized a strategic town in Upper Nile state close to the Ethiopian border, after clashes with government troops.