Turkey seizes control of Syrian border town
The Turkish Defense Ministry released a statement on Saturday saying that Ras al-Ayn “has been brought under control,” while Turkish news channels broadcast images of the town wreathed with plumes of smoke from a barrage of artillery fire.
Breaching Ras al-Ayn, one of the two initial primary targets of the Turkish offensive, now in its fourth day, comes amid an increasing tempo of attacks despite worldwide condemnation of the Turkish government.The takeover also injected further instability in Syria’s internecine civil war, which began in 2011 and has since devolved into a multi-front proxy conflict with sectarian-tinged bloodshed.
Displaced Syrians who fled their homes in the border town of Ras al-Ayn receive humanitarian aid Saturday in the town of Tal Tamr in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province. Making matters worse, Saido said, has been a shortage of water since Turkish shelling damaged a water station in the city of Hasakah.
Turkey aims to established a 20-mile strip of territory along the border with Syria where it will relocate the 3.6 million Syrian refugees still in Turkish territories. “We hope we don’t have to use them,” Mnuchin told reporters Friday. “But we can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to.”
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