Turkish armed forces are besieging the Syrian Kurdish-controlled district of Afrin in northern Syria, Turkey's president has said.
Iranian Labour News Agency
Turkish armed forces are besieging the Syrian Kurdish-controlled district of Afrin in northern Syria, Turkey's president has said.
Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Daesh militants in its four-day-old offensive into the Kurdish-dominated Afrin region of northwest Syria, the Turkish military said on Tuesday.
Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the root of the Syrian crisis is the irresponsible behavior of the cross-regional powers, including US and some war-mongering and ambitious countries of the region, such as the Zionist regime.
Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, Ankara said after launching artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border.