Afrin in a sentence

Intense Turkish artillery fire and air strikes continued to hit some villages, the YPG said, while fierce battles raged to the north and west of Afrin against Turkish forces and their rebel allies, said Birusk Hasaka, a YPG spokesman in Afrin.

Residents told Amnesty International that since March, children had been able to access only one school in Afrin city, while Afrin University has been completely shut down after it was destroyed and looted.

Anti-Assad protests took part in other rebel-held cities, including Al-Bab and Afrin, where a crowd unfurled a large opposition flag.

Reports state the operation targeted an abandoned farm being used as an Islamic school at Jindires, in the north-west region of Afrin.

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Shiler Sido, a 31-year-old former Afrin resident and volunteer with the Kurdish Red Crescent tells openDemocracy: “We had a free atmosphere where everyone presented themselves, especially women, as they wanted.

The regime has restricted aid to those who fled Afrin in 2018, leaving them without test kits, basic supplies, or access to specialist care.

Turkey provided no indication as to why they were attacking the village, or Afrin District in general.

A bomb planted on a public bus in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded about 20, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday.

Adnan Afrin said the militants are hiding among the civilians and using them as human shields.

Ahmed fears that Turkish control of the border would lead Kurdish border communities such as Kobani to suffer the same fate as her hometown, Afrin, which last year was plundered by Turkish-backed troops.

Damascus: As many as two people were killed and eight others reportedly injured in twin explosions in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Sunday.

However, on January 24, public outrage over reports that Turkey was using its Leopard 2s to kill Kurdish fighters in the Syrian enclaves of Afrin and Manbij forced Berlin to freeze the hostage-for-tanks deal.

Lilian Marijnissen, head of the SP, travelled to Antalya to support her party member, a 31-year-old of Kurdish descent, who had criticised the Turkish invasion of Afrin in northern Syria.

The Kurdish units will, as in Afrin, continue to conduct guerrilla warfare.

The Turks and their proxy forces swept into Afrin last year, waging a violent campaign on the Kurdish-controlled town.

This time round the international media treatment of the present Turkish invasion of northern Syria is very different from the disinterest it showed during Operation Olive Branch in Afrin.

Turkish troops take control of Bursayah hill, which separates the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the Turkey-controlled town of Azaz, Syria.

According to a Turkish presidential source, Erdogan on Friday told Emmanuel Macron that he was disturbed by the “baseless” comments regarding Turkey’s offensive in Afrin.

Afrin is one of three northern provinces that are majority Kurdish and loosely aligned in what the Kurds call the Rojava self-administration area.