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Turkey-backed forces in the city centre of Afrin, northwestern Syria yesterday
TURKISH President Recept Tayyip Erdogan vowed today to expand his country’s invasion of northern Syria into other Kurdish-held areas, following his military’s seizure of Afrin.
Residents and human rights monitors have reported widespread looting in the town by Turkish troops and their local allies, which are fighting under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) banner.
Video footage showed that one of the first acts of the FSA fighters, who appear to be former members of jihadist groups, in Afrin was the bulldoze a statue of a mythological Kurdish figure.
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