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Turkey steps up Syria shelling as invasion of Afrin looms - Published Turkey has intensified its shelling of a Kurdish militia in northern Syria, ahead of a threatened ground offensive aimed at driving them out of the area. The shelling of Afrin region came from Hatay province, Turkish state media said, as troops massed on the border. The Russian foreign minister has denied reports that Russia is withdrawing its forces from the area. Turkey has for months said it would clear Kurdish YPG fighters from Afrin, under Kurdish control since 2012. Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group. Syria has warned against an incursion, threatening to shoot down Turkish jets. Turkish Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli said the shelling was the "de-facto start" of a planned invasion of Afrin. The YPG (Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units) said 70 shells were fired at targets in Afrin overnight. Rizan Habou, of the Syrian Democratic Council in Afrin, told BBC Arabic that residents were seeking shelter. "When the villages in Afrin are shelled, the civilians [including] women and children are forced to leave their houses and go to the relatively safer surrounding open space and farmland till the shelling stops," he said. "The YPG and the civilians will defend Afrin to the last moment." Turkey's military and intelligence chiefs are in Moscow to try to get Russia's agreement to allow Turkish planes to use the Russian-controlled airspace above Afrin. Russian consent is essential for any Turkish operation. Moscow is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has a contingent of soldiers at the airport in the centre of Afrin. On Friday, the Anadolu news agency reported that Russian military personnel in Afrin were leaving in groups. But the Russia's Sergei Lavrov later denied the reports. Turkey has intermittently shelled and carried out air strikes against the YPG in the Afrin area, from where fighters have fired rockets into Turkey. Ankara sees the militia as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency in south-eastern Turkey. The YPG denies any direct links - an assertion backed by a US-led coalition whose air strikes and special forces have helped the militia and allied Arab fighters drive Islamic State militants (IS) from tens of thousands of square kilometres of Syria. The Kurdish progress inside Syria has alarmed Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly warned he will not allow a "terror corridor" linking Kurdish-controlled areas along the Syria-Turkish border. Afrin is currently isolated from two other self-declared Kurdish autonomous cantons - Kobani and Jazira. Turkish-backed rebel forces took over a 100km (60-mile) area separating the territories after driving out IS in 2016. US support for the SDF has infuriated Turkey, a fellow Nato member. Ankara recently denounced a US plan to set up an SDF-led 30,000-strong border security force in Kurdish-controlled areas, purportedly to guard against a resurgence of IS.
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कारबाहीमा संयम अपनाउन टर्कीलाई आग्रह टर्कीले सिरियास्थित एउटा कुर्दिश लडाकु समूहविरूद्ध स्थल कारबाही थालेपछि अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय समुदायले उसलाई 'संयमित' हुन आग्रह गरेको छ। इस्लामिक स्टेटविरुद्धको लडाइँमा उक्त समूह पश्चिमा मुलुकहरूको एउटा महत्त्वपूर्ण साझेदार रहिआएको छ। संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिकाले कारबाहीका क्रममा सर्वसाधारणको हताहती हुन नदिन र वाइपीजी समूहविरूद्धको कारबाही सीमित समय र क्षेत्रभित्र रहेको सुनिश्चित गर्न आग्रह गरेको छ। फ्रान्सले अविलम्ब संघर्षविराम गर्न र संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघको सुरक्षा परिषद्मा सोमवार त्यसबारे आकस्मिक छलफल गर्न माग गरेको छ। टर्कीद्वारा उत्तरी सिरियामा हवाई हमला प्रतिकार वाइपीजीले टर्कीबाट गरिएको आक्रमणको प्रतिकार गरिरहेको जनाएको छ। तर हवाई हमलाबाट धेरै सर्वसाधारण मारिएका छन्। टर्कीको कुर्दिश विद्रोहीसँग सम्बन्ध भएकोले अंकाराले वाइपीजीलाई एउटा आतंकवादी समूहको रूपमा हेर्दै आएको छ। कुर्दिश लडाकुलाई धपाउने एउटा महत्त्वपूर्ण कारबाहीका क्रममा टर्कीका सैनिकहरू उत्तरी सिरियामा प्रवेश गरेका छन्। सक्रिय वाइपीजी भनेर चिनिने कुर्दिश लडाकु समूह टर्कीको सीमासँग जोडिएको सिरियाको आफ्रिन क्षेत्रमा सक्रिय रहिआएको छ। टर्कीका राष्ट्रपति रेजेप तय्यीप एर्दोआनले वाइपीजीलाई "धेरै छिटो" परास्त गरिने प्रतिबद्धता व्यक्त गरेका छन्। टर्कीको सरकारले कैयौँ महिनादेखि आफ्रिन र त्यहाँदेखि करिब १०० किलोमिटर टाढा पर्ने अर्को शहर मान्बिजबाट कुर्दिश लडाकुलाई धपाउने चेतावनी दिँदै आएको छ। शनिवार शुरू 'ओलिभ ब्रान्च' नाम दिइएको सैन्य कारबाहीको उद्देश्य कुर्दिश लडाकुलाई आफ्रिनबाट धपाउनु रहेको छ।