Afrin has been semi-autonomous since Syrian troops pulled out in 2012 Afrin and its environs are beautiful, a rich prize worth fighting for. The region is known as Kurd-Dagh - the Mountain of the ...

Omar Jamil (a pseudonym), 35, returned home with his wife, parents and five children on December 4 to his village in the ...

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At least 40 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the north-western Syrian city of Afrin, Turkey says. The governor of the neighbouring Turkish border province of Hatay said a fuel tanker ...