TURKEY TELLS KURDS IN NORTHERN SYRIA TO WITHDRAW OR FACE ACTION

ANKARA: Turkey has sent more tanks into Syria and sternly warned a Kurdish militia to withdraw from frontline positions, a day after pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters captured a key border town from Islamic State. The tanks joined those which crossed the frontier on Wednesday in an operation called Euphrates Shield, which Turkey says aims to rid the northern Syrian border area of both IS extremists and Kurdish militia. Hundreds of Syrian rebel fighters – backed by Turkish tanks, warplanes and special forces – had on Wednesday taken the town of Jarablus. Turkey warned the Kurdish militia to move back east across the Euphrates or face intervention