Ankara Forces' Operation in Northern Syria Inflicts More Causality on Kurds

TEHRAN (defapress)- Over 710 Kurdish fighters have thus far been killed in Operation Olive Branch by the Turkish Army troops and allied militants in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo, the Turkish Army General Staff announced in a statement on Wednesday.

News ID: 68373

Date: 31 January 2018 - 14:22

The statement said that the Turkish Air Force bombed and destroyed 22 positions of the Kurdish fighters in Afrin region yesterday.

It further said that 63 Kurdish combatants were killed in the Operation Olive Branch in Northwestern Syrian on Tuesday, adding the total number of casualties on the Kurdish side ever since the operation started stands at 712.

Meantime, Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported earlier today that a civilian was killed in the Turkish Army's artillery fire in Hadid region West of the town of Afrin, adding that another civilian was injured in the attacks on the town of Bolbol and Jabal (mount) Qar Norht of Afrin.

In the meantime, the Turkish sources reported that the Kurdish forces in Afrin fired two rockets at the border town of Reihanli in Trukey's Hatay province, injuring several civilians.