Meanwhile, Nato foreign ministers debate increased weapons spending as police investigate the bloc’s purchases of military equipment
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Russia, Syria and the Kurds 'agree resistance' to Turkish invasion of Afrin
Master of War: Turkey's President Erdogan has sent his army into Syria's Afrin canton to crush Kurdish fighters
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THREE-WAY talks between Russia, the Syrian government and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have produced an agreement on resisting Turkey’s invasion of the Afrin region of Aleppo province.
A third detachment of government-aligned Kurdish militia entered Afrin yesterday through the al-Ziyara crossing to help defend the predominantly Kurdish region from Turkish aggression.
Russian military police escorted the convoys at the crossing, signalling to Ankara that there should be no repeat of its bombardment when the first government-sanctioned buses arrived.
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