by Steve Sweeney
International editor

KURDISH officials have demanded urgent action from the international community after a report warned that more than 7,000 people have been kidnapped from Afrin by Turkish-backed jihadists since the 2018 invasion.

They called on the world to demand an end to the Turkish occupation and bombing of Afrin, as missiles continue to terrorise the civilian population in the northern Syrian enclave of Rojava.

The Afrin Human Rights Organisation’s (AHRO) end-of-year report, released on Monday, documents “a third year of grisly human rights violations, depredations and war crimes to be added to the black record of Turkish occupation in Afrin.”