Turkey continued to fire artillery at a US-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria on Sunday, after Turkey’s state media said four rockets from Syria had hit a Turkish border town. Under “Operation Olive Branch”, Turkish airstrikes on Saturday pounded positions of the Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia in the northern Afrin province. “Turkey expects its allies to support its fight against terrorism in all of its forms.”Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency earlier reported that four rockets fired from Syria hit the border town of Kilis overnight, damaging houses. Saturday’s strikes on the Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia hit some 108 targets, the Turkish military said. The United States is backing the YPG in Syria, seeing it as an effective partner in the fight against Islamic State.

Source: Egypt Independent January 21, 2018 09:00 UTC