Turkey has launched an offensive into north-eastern Syria, unleashing air strikes and artillery barrages aimed at US-backed Kurdish forces who control the region. “This morning, Turkey, a Nato member, invaded Syria. He added: “The areas in Syria currently controlled by Turkey are full of corruption, more corrupt even than regime areas. “Turkey must pay a heavy price for attacking our Syrian Kurdish partners,” Democratic senator Chris van Hollen said on Twitter. The Kurds say Ankara’s real goal is to dilute their demographic dominance of the north-east with an influx of mostly Sunni Arab refugees originally from other parts of Syria.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2019 13:30 UTC