Vehicles carrying Syrian rebel fighters and trucks loaded with equipment arrive on Turkey’s side of the border area in Akcakale. More here:
AKCAKALE, Turkey - Turkish forces and Syrian rebel allies will advance into Syria “shortly”, a Turkish official said on Wednesday, in a move world powers fear could open a new chapter in Syria’s war and worsen regional turmoil.
Ankara has said it intends to create a “safe zone” in order to return millions of refugees to Syrian soil, but the scheme has alarmed some Western allies as much as the risks posed by the military operation itself. The Kurdish-led authority in northern Syria declared a state of “general mobilization” in light of the looming attack.
They will be based in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, it said, across the border from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, with 14,000 of them gradually joining the offensive. At Akcakale, across from Syria’s Tel Abyad, howitzers were deployed behind earth embankments and pointed towards Syria, a Reuters witness said on Tuesday. Multiple launch rocket systems were stationed at Suruc, some 60 km to the west, opposite the Syrian border town of Kobani, he said.
Another Assad ally, Iran, urged Turkey to show restraint and avoid military action in northern Syria, although it said Turkey was “rightfully worried” about its southern border.
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