ANKARA/BEIRUT - Turkish-backed Syrian rebels advanced into Ras al Ain in northeast Syria on Saturday but it was unclear how far they had reached, with Turkey saying the town center had been taken and Kurdish-led forces denying this and saying they were counter-attacking.
The Turkish assault has raised alarm about its humanitarian fall-out. The regional Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast said nearly 200,000 people had been displaced as a result, while the U.N. World Food Programme put the figure at more than 100,000 in the towns of Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain.
But the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces , in which the YPG comprises the main fighting element, swiftly denied losing the center of Ras al Ain. Turkish forces had overnight stepped up their bombardment of Ras al Ain in their incursion, after U.S. troops in the vicinity came under artillery fire from Turkish positions.In the latest international censure of the assault, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Saturday called it an “invasion of an Arab state’s land and an aggression on its sovereignty”.
It was quieter at Tel Abyad, the operation’s other main target some 120 km to the west, with only occasional shelling heard in the area, a Reuters reporter said. Seventy-four Kurdish-led fighters, 49 Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and 30 civilians have been killed in the fighting, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor.
Five IS militants fled a jail there, and foreign women from the group being held in a camp torched tents and attacked guards with sticks and stones, the SDF said.
Out cry from USA ....LOL
Turkey Gives Damn. Europarl_EN USAGov TurkeyIsATerrorState
The Kurds don't need U.S. and EU lip service. They were abandoned and set up by the U.S. for the kill. Those sanctions are useless empty rhetorics.
Syrian rebels are absolutely terrorists and radicals. .they don't have any moral rules
POTUS What the need of sanctions when iam dead already as a Kurd ?
Pkk pyd is a terörist group Who armed by usa.usa must taken to human Rights court
Siz kendinize haberci mi diyorsunuz? Sahtekarlar
Sounds like a cluster mess. Turkish Syrian rebels, Syrian Kurdish rebels and the Syrians. Thank you realDonaldTrump for getting the U.S out of that quagmire. Who will be the last American to die in these endless wars? DNC GOP
YPG/SDF/PYD/PKK is terrorist organization. This child's sister killed from YPG/PKK.
EU and Us have to remember their bloody past before assaulting another countries 🤬Turks are coming to deal out peace and justice,forever🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
“outcry”? Trump & Western leaders are hoping that Turkey attacks that strip quickly and makes the occupation a fait accompli! Bunch of ungrateful cowards!
To add insult to injury (literally) for the Kurds, the Turks are probably using some American and European made weaponry.
As a NATO ally, Turkey fights against the terrorism of ISIS and PKK-YPG in Syria. PKK-YPG killed civilians in Turkey's Nusaybin and Akçakale districts. Turkey's so-called allies, instead of being with us in the fight, support terrorism.
“outcry from the United States”, “warning of possible sanctions”. Good grief, realDonaldTrump green lighted the process by pulling out early. Typical. He wasn’t happy just killing 7 children at his boarder, now he authored a genocide when he signed to withdraw troops!
CORRECTION Syrian Kurdish Terrorists!
This is just garbage. Syria needs to be made whole again and their citizens repatriated. Enough of this.
So, where is Trump's crushing retaliation if Turkey dared do this. Well, they did it! Many US allies and innocents have been killed. Lesson learned: don't rely on America, especially while Trump is in the White House.
That’s because they know the USA 🇺🇸 is not going to do 💩 about it.. thanks to Trump and Putin !
Outcry helps absolutely nothing!
This is the hate-filled Middle East.
Out cry from the U S ... lmfao the U S sent them in .
they are not rebels patriots
Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians lived in this land for peace for hundreds of years. you are evil and do it for oil and Israel
There needs to be a kurdish state or i see no end to these endless stupid wars
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