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Over 1,700 terrorists killed in Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s Afrin

20 February 2018 13:33 (UTC+04:00)
Over 1,700 terrorists killed in Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s Afrin

By Trend

Since the beginning of Operation Olive Branch, 1,715 terrorists were killed in Syria’s Afrin district, the Turkish General Staff said in a message Feb. 20.

In particular, 74 members of Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist organizations have been recently killed in Afrin.

On Jan. 20, the Turkish Armed Forces, together with the Free Syrian Army, launched the Operation Olive Branch in Afrin, Syria.

F-16 fighters of the Turkish Air Force are involved in the operation, inflicting strikes on the positions of PYD/YPG on the Syrian-Turkish border.

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