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Stefanie Dekker

Afrin: Turkey 'to fight' Syria if it defends Kurds

Afrin: Turkey 'to fight' Syria if it defends Kurds

Syria's state news agency has reported that pro-government forces would enter Afrin 'within hours' to join what it called the resistance to Turkish aggression.

The announcement follows what appears to be an agreement to help Kurdish YPG fighters in Afrin. The YPG has been fighting to repel a Turkish offensive there for a month.

It is a move that further complicates the conflict. Turkey sees the YPG as a "terror" group - but elsewhere in northern Syria, it has been part of a U-S-backed alliance confronting ISIL.

 

Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports.

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