Latest in Tag: Afrin Highlight
Latest in Tag: Afrin
Syrian troops to support YPG against Turkish military in Afrin
Ankara considers Syria’s PYD, its armed wing YPG terrorist groups
17 Turks killed since start of assault on Afrin
Turkey has lost 17 soldiers in fierce clashes during the offensive in Syria’s Afrin region, according to international reports. Turkey began an offensive, dubbed Operation Olive Branch, on 20 January with the stated aim of hitting positions held by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State group (IS) militants, although IS is not …
15 days into Turkey’s operation in AfrinÂ
Syrian Kurds targeted before Washington’s eyes
The Arabs between Davos and Afrin
On January 20 2018, Turkish forces invaded Syrian territories in a military operation dubbed Olive Branch. The aim has been to clear Afrin from Kurdish “terrorists”—and Ankara vowed to continue its drive inside Syria to the Iraqi-Syrian borders to the east, to drive out all the Kurds from this vast stretch of territory. In so …