Kurdish forces say war with Turkey has entered ‘a new phase’
Turkey-backed fighters celebrate around a statue of Kawa, a mythology figure in Kurdish culture, after they have destroyed it in the city centre of Afrin, northwestern Syria
SYRIAN Kurdish official Othman Sheikh Issa declared today that the war with Ankara has entered “a new phase” of guerilla warfare after Turkish troops and allied forces steamrollered their way into Afrin city.
Tens of thousands of residents fled the advancing Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters backed by intense air strikes.
Some pockets of resistance remain in the town, but the YPG Kurdish militia has largely withdrawn its forces.
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