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23:03, 20-Feb-2018
Syria's pro-government fighters enter Afrin to halt Turkish assault
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Syrian state television showed a convoy of pro-government fighters entering the Kurdish-held Afrin region on Tuesday to help fend off a Turkish assault.
The fighters wore camouflage fatigues and waved weapons and Syrian flags from their vehicles as they crossed through a checkpoint that bore the insignia of a Kurdish security force.
A monitor also confirmed the fighters' entry into the Afrin region on Tuesday.
"Hundreds of fighters entered the Afrin region on Tuesday afternoon," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syria's state media had said on Monday that pro-Damascus forces would head to Afrin to "join the resistance against the Turkish aggression."
Source(s): AFP
,Reuters