More Kurdish Gunmen Killed, Captured in Turkish Army Operation in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- A sum of 2,083 Kurdish fighters have thus far been killed or held captured by Turkish forces in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo, the Turkish Army's General Staff announced in a statement on Tuesday.

News ID: 68907

Date: 27 February 2018 - 16:00

The army's statement said that a sum of 2,083 Kurdish militants have been killed by the Turkish troops and Ankara-backed militants within the framework of Operation Olive Brach in Afrin region.

Militant-affiliated sources reported earlier today that the Turkish Army troops and Ankara-backed militants captured more Kurdish-held regions in Northwestern Aleppo and took full control over the entire region between the Turkish border and Afrin.

The news websites reported that the Ankara-backed militants engaged in fierce clashes with the Kurdish fighters in Sheikh Hadid flank within the framework of Operation Olive Branch in Afrin region and captured the villages of Sanara Foqani, Sanara Tahtani and Ankala.

The websites said that the army and their allied militants managed to capture a region between Jandaris and Sheikh Hadid regions and took control of Turkey-Syrian border in Afrin region.

The Turkish army sources said on Monday that at least 2,060 Kurdish fighters were killed in fierce clashes with the Turkish army troops.

Meantime, the field sources close to the Ankara-backed militants reported that they took control of Qarmanlaq village in Sheikh Hadid after a tough battle with the Kurdish fighters.

The sources added that the Turkish army and their allied militants have seized control of 23 percent or 537sq/km of Afrin during their 38-day-long operation in the region.