Turkish-led Forces Make Rapid Advance Inside Syria's Afrin: Monitor

Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published March 18, 2018 | 01:55 PM

Turkish-led forces make rapid advance inside Syria's Afrin: monitor

Beirut, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Mar, 2018 ) :Turkey-led forces made a lighting advance inside Syria's Afrin on Sunday, taking control of half the Kurdish-majority city, a war monitor said.

Turkish troops and allied rebels seized more than 50 percent of the city from Kurdish forces after days of heavy bombardment, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

A civilian inside Afrin said that Turkish-backed rebels had deployed in the city centre and that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia had "withdrawn".

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