The Turkish military says it has surrounded the Kurdish-held city of Afrin in northern Syria, the focus of an offensive against a Kurdish militia. A statement said troops and allied Syrian rebels ...
Afrin has been semi-autonomous since Syrian troops pulled out in 2012 Afrin and its environs are beautiful, a rich prize worth fighting for. The region is known as Kurd-Dagh - the Mountain of the ...
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Fatima told her story to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Gulbahar, 1, is from Afrin. Her mother Berivan says she slept the entire boat ride to Greece. “She’s always sick and ...