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Turkey faces growing Kurdish insurgency in Syria’s Afrin
Ever since the Turkish military and allied factions from the Free Syrian Army drove the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) out of Kurdish-dominated Afrin in March 2017, there has been almost no independent reporting on how the…
- Amberin Zaman
- Al Monitor
The United Nations and Human Rights Watch are among a handful of international bodies that have offered valuable insight on the massive human rights abuses — rape, theft, extortion, kidnappings and the…
The UN said some of these actions amount to war crimes.
But aside from propaganda being churned out from opposing sides, even less is known about a…