Alwaght- Turkish said on Sunday its military has killed 484 Kurdish militias and ISIS terrorists since the beginning of military incursion into Syria’s northwestern Afrin region on January 20.
According to a statement issued by the Turkish General Staff, the army “neutralized” 37 Kurdish and ISIS fighters a so far on Sunday.
The statement said seven Turkish jets safely returned to their bases after destroying some targets -- used as weapon pits, shelters, and ammunition depots by the Kurdish forces and ISIS terrorist groups.
Operation Olive Branch is "successfully continuing as planned," it added.
Over the past days, the Kurds have been facing Turkey's so-called Operation Olive Branch, which was launched last Friday in a bid to eliminate the US-backed Kurdish YPG militants, which Ankara views as a terror organization and the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The latter has been fighting for an autonomous region inside Turkey since 1984.
Syria has condemned the Turkish aggression against its territory and vowed to respond with appropriate action.
