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The Kurdish YPJ flag flies at a protest in Germany
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REFUGEES who fled the Turkish invasion of Afrin have still not received international support despite an urgent appeal made last week.
More than 176,000 people have been forced to leave Afrin which has come under heavy bombardment from Nato’s second largest army.
Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, which began in January, brought together Turkish troops and Free Syria Army jihadist mercenaries to invade the largely Kurdish Afrin region in northern Syria on the pretext of fighting terrorism.
MAISSON HASSAN highlights how amid bombed-out cities and collapsing hospitals, women-led initiatives are keeping communities alive
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
