Kurdish-led SDF gain back control over most of Ras al-Ain border city: Monitor
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) gain
back control over most of the border city of Ras al-Ain, in a counterattack
which killed 17 from Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces, the UK-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
A senior Turkish security official had said on Saturday
that the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition seized control of the city.
“The [Syrian opposition] national army took control
of the town center this morning. Inspections are being conducted in residential
areas,” the official said.
Syrian Kurdish-led forced denied on Saturday that
Turkey had seized Ras al-Ain.
The Turkish military and allied Syrian opposition
forces have been advancing in villages around Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ain, under
the cover of Turkish artillery and some airstrikes.
Turkey is fighting the Syrian Kurdish People’s
Protection Units (YPG), which it considers a threat for its links to a
decades-long Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
