Facebook Twitter Pinterest An explosion in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn, which Turkish forces were attempting to capture. In 2015, when US officials struck a partnership with Syrian Kurds to fight Isis, the PKK was supportive and had remained so ever since. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Turkish soldiers watch as smoke billows from the border town of Ras al-Ayn on Saturday. Now they will put strangers in our homes“They’re having a difficult time because there is intense resistance from [Kurdish forces],” he said. A Kurdish woman in the Turkish border town of Viranşehir, originally from Ras al-Ayn, burst into tears watching the carnage unfold from her living room television set.

Source: The Guardian October 12, 2019 18:30 UTC