Turkish military operation in Afrin

When

20 Jan 2018

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

36.51° N, 36.87° E

Description

Turkish offensive against the SDF in Afrin

Turkish offensive against the SDF in Afrin

Operation Olive Branch was an invasion by the Turkish Armed Forces and Syrian National Army (SNA) in the Kurdish-majority Afrin District of northwest Syria, against the People's Protection Units (YPG) of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The air war and use of major artillery ended as the Arab and Turkmen militias of the SNA entered the city of Afrin on 18 March 2018.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announces the beginning of a military offensive to capture a portion of northern Syria from Kurdish forces”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Wenige Tage nach der Ankündigung der USA, eine 30.000 Mann starke Truppe entlang der syrischen Nordgrenze aufzustellen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la bataille d'Afrine est lancée par l'armée turque contre les forces kurdes, la ville est prise le 18 mars”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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