TURKISH media claimed nine people were wounded yesterday by rockets fired over the border from Syria’s Afrin canton.

It blames the fire on Syrian Kurdish forces resisting the Turkish invasion of the region, which has seen dozens of civilians killed in indiscriminate bombing raids.

Turkey claims to be fighting “terrorists” in Afrin, though the Kurdish forces it is fighting have been battling Isis in alliance with its Nato ally the United States. Kurdish politician Aldar Khalil has slammed Washington’s “unclear and indecisive” stance on the Turkish assault.

“They should meet their obligations towards this force that participated with them [in the war against Isis],” he said.

Communist Party of Turkey general secretary Kemal Okuyan told the Sol newspaper that the invasion was a bid to force the US to abandon support for Kurdish forces, which have built up self-governing areas around Rojava over the course of the Syrian war.

“Syria has been de facto divided despite the fact that the Syrian government did not fall,” Mr Okuyan said.

“The AKP government [in Turkey] maintains its previous Syrian policy. It would do anything for a regime change in Syria if it had the chance. It’s trying to convince the US of that by sending the message: ‘Take the [Kurdish nationalist] PYD out of the equation and we can move against the Syrian government together’.”