Sunday, January 21, 2018

Turkish Tanks, Troops Roll into Northern Syria; Fight with US-Backed Kurdish Troops by Border

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province today (January 21, 2018), after Turkey launched artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border, according to the Express (British) website.


Turkey launched the invasion seeking to oust from the Afrin region the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers a terror group.


The invasion risks further increasing tensions with Turkey's NATO ally, the United States, which has supported the YPG in the fight against Islamic State (IS) terrorists.


Syria's ongoing civil war has killed more than 340,000 people and displaced millions since it erupted in 2011.

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