ALEPPO/BEIRUT – U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad.
Reuters: Assad quietly aids Syrian Kurds against Turkey
A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighter mans a monitoring point near the Syrian village of Qilah, in the southwestern edge of the Afrin region close to the border with Turkey, on January 21, 2018.
Turkish forces and their Syrian allies pressed a cross border offensive against a Kurdish militia for a second day, as rocket fire hit a border town in apparent retaliation.
