Five Turkish soldiers Killed in Syria’s afrin
Tehran (KNA) - Turkey’s military says five Turkish soldiers have been killed by Kurdish forces from the People's Protection Units (YPG).
The Turkish forces were killed in a YPG attack on a tank, the military said on Saturday.Turkey has been waging "Operation Olive Branch" against Syria's Afrin region since January 20 in a bid to eliminate the US-backed YPG, which Ankara views as a terror organization and the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The latter has been fighting for an autonomous region inside Turkey since 1984.
The YPG forms the backbone of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed anti-Damascus militant group.
Source: Press TV