Around 20,000 members of opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Turkish troops will participate in a new military operation in the northwestern Syrian Afrin region, which is under control of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
The first targets of the operation will be the town of Tall Rifat and the Minaq airbase. The offensive will be launched from the towns of A’zaz, Kaljibrin and Marea eastward and from Idlib westward, Sabah newspaper reported citing its sources.
Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish associations to be a wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) banned in the country.
