Fighting raged in northwestern Syria Saturday as Turkish troops and allied militiamen tried to advance their offensive in the nearby Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin, Syrian opposition activists said. (Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press)AZAZ, Syria — Fighting raged in northwestern Syria Saturday as Turkish troops and allied militiamen tried to advance their week-long offensive in a Kurdish-controlled enclave, Syrian opposition activists said. McMaster confirmed in a phone call with the Turkish president’s spokesman late Friday that the U.S. will no longer arm the Syrian Kurdish fighters. “The (Syrian) regime doesn’t believe in a political solution and it will not believe in the future ... it only believes in the military option,” Syrian opposition leader Naser al-Hariri said from Vienna on Saturday. The agreement was reached in Vienna between the Syrian opposition and Russia.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2018 09:25 UTC