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| Turkish-led assault on Syria's Afrin displaced 30,000 in a day |
| 2018-03-16 |
| [DAWN] A "More than 30,000 people were displaced since yesterday (Wednesday) as a result of "They went to areas controlled by the Syrian regime and to the outskirts of the city" under the control of Kurdish militia, the monitoring group said. On January 20, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched a major ground and air offensive on the Afrin enclave, with the support of Syrian Arab rebel proxies. It claims to have now almost completely encircled the region's main city of Afrin. An AFP correspondent inside the city saw hundreds of families cramming into the back of pick-up trucks and onto tractor-drawn carts as they prepared to leave the city via the only remaining exit. Those who stayed behind formed long queues outside shops to buy bread and various food goods in preparation for a fully fledged siege by |
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