BEIRUT – Turkish shelling and airstrikes killed 13 people in the town of Jandiris in Syria’s Afrin region on Monday, Kurdish militia said, while a war monitoring group put the death toll at 22.
Turkey launched an offensive on Afrin in January to drive out the YPG, which it regard as a terrorist group and as an extension of a Kurdish insurgency at home.
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