Turkish planes strike

Beirut: Turkish warplanes have attacked proSyrian government forces, killing at least 17 people in a village in the north of the Afrin region in northwestern Syria, the Britishbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday.

The dead included three members of the Syrian Kurdish YPG force, while the rest were drawn from militias that support President Bashar alAssad and entered Afrin last week to help repel a Turkish offensive, the Observatory said. — Reuters