Eight killed in Turkish raids on northern Syria

Turkish air raids killed eight civilians on Sunday in the northern Syrian enclave of Afrin, according to a war monitor and a spokesman for the Kurdish forces that control the area.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead, who included at least one child, were killed in airstrikes on the village of Jalbara.

Turkish army troops gather near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province on January 21, 2018. (AFP / BULENT KILIC)

“Eight civilians were killed in missile strikes on a chicken farm where they were living,” says Birusk Hasakeh, a spokesman for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, blaming Turkish warplanes.

— AFP

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