Over 4,200 Kurdish Militias Killed, Held Captive in Turkish Army "Operation"/invasion in Northern Syria

The Turkish Army General Staff announced in a statement on Saturday that a sum of 4,254 Kurdish fighters have been killed or held captive in the operation in Afrin region that started on January 20.

The statement said that the total number of PKK casualties and war prisoners has risen to 4,254 in Operation Olive Branch by the Turkish troops and Ankara-backed militants in Afrin region in Northwestern Aleppo.

In the same statement, the General Staff also said air operations had been conducted against the PKK  between April 14 and 20 in Turkey’s Eastern provinces of Tunceli, Diyarbakir and Sirnak, as well as Northern Iraq, killing 37 gunmen.

Militant-affiliated websites reported earlier today that the Turkish Army has forwarded another military convoy to Idlib province amid reports on activation of more military posts to monitor truce in the Idlib de-escalation zone.

The sources said that the army's new military convoy entered Northern Idlib via Kafr Lusin border-crossing, heading towards silos of the town of al-Sarman near the town of Jarjanaz in Southeastern Idlib and the town of Morek in Northwestern Hama.

The websites further said that the convoy included five vehicles and nine more military vehicles, claiming that the dispatch of the new convoy is aimed at providing more support for the Turkish truce monitoring posts in the region.
 (FNA)
 21/4/18