According to Turkish reports, seven Turkish soldiers were killed in the military’s Afrin offensive on Saturday.
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Turkish forces and their proxies took the town of Bulbul, 30km north of Afrin city, close to the border with Turkey, on Thursday, according to Turkish media.
If confirmed, the deaths would bring the total number of Turkish military dead to 14, since the offensive in Afrin began.
Previously, Ankara complained that the American troops’ embedding with Kurdish militias – regarded as terrorists in Turkey – is unacceptable for the US-Turkish alliance.
It had been tanned in battle to expel forces of Islamic State in 2015 of City of Kobane (Turkish-Syrian border).
Russian Federation is a key ally of President Bashar Assad, and has been waging a military campaign on behalf of his forces since 2015.
According to a United Kingdom based Syrian Center of Human Rights Studies, 68 civilians, including 21 children have been killed as a result of the Turkish intervention.
The operation aims to drive Kurdish militias from the area, but it does not come without setbacks.
Turkey will also continue to use the airspace across Afrin region in northern Syria, where it recently launched Operation “Olive Branch”, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag told Reuters in an interview. “They will not succeed, for Allah is with us”, Koc said.
Both Ishak and Pollock spoke alongside the USA representative of the Syrian Kurdish government at the National Press Club.
The clashing declarations from and Washington are creating a “situation on the ground [that] is unsafe enough for accidents to happen”, Mr. Hamasaeed said. “Now we are moving ahead to Afrin, nearly there”.
Meanwhile, three civilians were reported killed, including a child, after heavy Syrian army shelling and air raids on Douma, a rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus.
The accusation against the Turkish border guards comes amid rising tensions along the Turkey-Syria border as Turkey’s military has moved into northern Syria.
A suicide attack on a Turkish tank in on Sunday ended with five troops dead.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday that it is possible to balance the alliance with Turkey while still supporting the Kurds, and suggested that having United States troops working with the Kurdish militias in Syria was one way of aiding Turkey’s security.
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The observatory also said 91 YPG fighters had been killed.
