According to the Syrian Observatory, 66 people died in the fighting on Saturday, including seven Turkish soldiers. Women are a major component of the Kurdish militias in northern Syria, fighting under their own flag and with independent, female commanders. On Sunday, fighting continued in the Afrin area. Turkey’s official Anadolu News Agency quoted the Turkish army as saying that it had “neutralized 37 Daesh and PKK terrorists” in airstrikes that day. The Turks refer to Syrian Kurdish militias by the acronym of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party, P.K.K.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2018 22:28 UTC