Video First look inside Afrin district villages since YPG defeated

(3 Mar 2018) The Associated Press, on a Turkish government-organized media tour into northern Syria, gained access to Afrin district for the first time on Saturday visiting a small village recently cleared from the YPG.

Captain Ahmed Taqtaq of allied Syrian forces in Marsawa village said they gained control of three villages in the last 10 days, fighting some 50 Syrian Kurdish fighters.

He said, "Since we were in elevated areas, it facilitated our advance toward these villages."

Armed Syrian fighters patrolled the village.

Turkey's Red Crescent and emergency agency distributed beds, blankets and food to some 20 families to women in Marsawa, where walls were scribbled with YPG and other Kurdish groups' graffiti.

Further south, Turkish soldiers were keeping watch with weapons ready in Bursayah Hill, captured in January.




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