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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Clashes between pro-Turkish rebels kill 11 in Syria’s Afrin
2018-11-19
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Clashes on Sunday between Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel factions vying for influence in the northern Syrian town of Afrin left 11 fighters dead, a war monitor said.

Ottoman Turkish troops and allied rebel groups seized the Afrin region from Kurdish forces in March after a two-month air and ground offensive.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting in several districts "had left 11 dead and 27 maimed" after erupting on Saturday.

Ottoman Turkish troops stationed in the town imposed a curfew on civilians from Saturday evening in a bid to avoid bloodshed, the Observatory said.

The festivities pitched the majority of the pro-Ankara rebels against a group of some 200 fighters who were accused of "disobeying" Ottoman Turkish forces and "committing abuses", the monitor said.

The main alliance of Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels in Afrin wrote on Twitter that current operations were aimed at "pursuing outlaw gangs".

Since Ottoman Turkish troops and pro-Ankara Arab rebels captured the town from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the United Nations
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 and human rights
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 groups, including Amnesia Amnesty International, have documented widespread abuses.

Half of the enclave’s 320,000 residents fled, according to a report by the UN Commission of Inquiry, and most are unable to return.

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