Turkey-led Forces Enter Syria's Afrin City: Monitor
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published March 18, 2018 | 12:30 PM
Beirut, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Mar, 2018 ) :Turkish forces and their rebel allies have entered Syria's Kurdish-majority city of Afrin and taken control of several districts, a war monitor said on Sunday.
"Fighting is ongoing inside the city, where Turkish forces and allied rebels have seized some neighbourhoods," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Pro-Ankara rebels said they "broke into the city from the eastern and western sides" to seize the neighbourhoods of Ashrafieh and Jamiliyyeh.
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