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Thousands flee Syria’s Afrin as Turkey begins siege of Kurdish town

People are fleeing the Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin as Turkish troops and allied militants laid a siege there.

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People are fleeing the Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin as Turkish troops and allied militants laid a siege there. Turkish military has besieged the town as part of an offensive against Kurdish forces, YPS, inside Syria that began almost two months ago. Ankara regards YPS as a terrorist group. Syria has called the aggression a violation of its sovereignty.