Air raids on Kurd units

TURKEY at the weekend launched a new air and ground operation to oust a Kurdish militia from a northern Syrian enclave, defying US warnings that the action risked further destabilising the area after almost seven years of civil war.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had repeatedly vowed that Turkey would root out the “nests of terror” in Syria of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia which Turkey deems a terror organisation.

It said 108 targets were struck and that all casualties were Kurdish militants. A total of 72 aircraft took part.