- Title: Explosions rock border town of Tel Abyad
- Date: 10th October 2019
- Summary: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS FILMED FROM AKCAKALE, TURKEY) (OCTOBER 10, 2019) (REUTERS) SMOKE BILLOWING OUT AFTER EXPLOSIONS EXPLOSION GOING OFF / PILLARS OF SMOKE BILLOWING OUT SMOKE IN THE AREA VIEW OF THE TOWN / SMOKE RISING BEHIND SLOPE VARIOUS OF PILLARS OF SMOKE BILLOWING OUT AS AUDIO OF EXPLOSION HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND
- Embargoed: 24th October 2019 10:16
- Keywords: Turkey Syria military operation blast YPG Syrian Kurdish militia Operation Peace Spring
- Location: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS SEEN FROM AKCAKALE, TURKEY)
- City: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS SEEN FROM AKCAKALE, TURKEY)
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0IKLL3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:A series of explosions rocked of border town of Tel Abyad across Turkey's Akcakale on Thursday (October 10) and smoke from fresh blasts hovered above the skyline as Turkish forces pushed deeper into northern Syria.
Turkey said its forces seized designated targets on the second day of an offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria, after a withdrawal by U.S. forces opened up a dangerous new phase in the region's eight-year-old conflict.
In the Turkish border town of Akcakale, around 30 vehicles carrying Syrian rebels, many pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft machines drove along the main along the Turkish side of the border from Syria's Tel Abyad, a Reuters journalist said.
NATO-ally Turkey has said it intends to create a "safe zone" for the return of millions of refugees to Syria. But world powers fear Turkey's action could deepen the conflict, and runs the risk of Islamic State prisoners escaping from camps amid the chaos.
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