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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hundreds Flee Turkish Advance on Afrin City
2018-03-13
[AnNahar] Hundreds of civilians fled a Ottoman Turkish-led advance on Syria's Kurdish-majority city of Afrin on Monday, a monitor said.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
-led rebels have advanced to the outskirts of Afrin city since launching an assault on the wider Kurdish enclave of the same name on January 20.

"More than 2,000 civilians have arrived in the area of Nubul" controlled by pro-regime forces after fleeing the enclave, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Several hundred more are still on the roads" heading out of the region, the Britannia-based Observatory said.

Afrin city -- the main urban center in the enclave on the Ottoman Turkish border -- is home to around 350,000 people, the Observatory says.

A journalist contributing to AFP saw dozens of cars and buses loaded with civilians and their belongings queuing as they waited to exit the enclave.

The Observatory says pro-Ankara forces have captured around 60 percent of the Afrin enclave since January 20.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Kurds ought to be planting as many IEDs as they can, and setting up a kill zone all ovver Afrin for the Turks. Make them pay a price, in blood.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-03-13 14:30  

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