- Title: Turkish artillery shells YPG targets in northern Syria
- Date: 12th October 2019
- Summary: AKCAKALE, TURKEY (OCTOBER 12, 2019) (REUTERS) HOWITZERS FIRING AT YPG TARGETS ON THE SYRIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER AS SEEN BEHIND FORTIFICATION HOWITZER SEEN BEHIND FORTIFICATION HOWITZERS FIRING AT TARGETS IN SYRIA ARMOURED MILITARY VEHICLE AND BARRACK AT OUTPOST HOWITZERS FIRING AT TARGETS GUN BARREL OF HOWITZER SEEN BEHIND FORTIFICATION ARMOURED MILITARY VEHICLE AND BARRACK AT OUTPOST
- Embargoed: 26th October 2019 12:01
- Keywords: Syria Turkey military operation into northern Syria artillery Syrian Kurds YPG
- Location: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
- City: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0SILAF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Turkish howitzers positioned on the border hit Kurdish militia targets in northern Syrian town of Tel Abyad on Saturday (October 12).
Turkish forces stepped up their bombardment around a town in northeast Syria on the fourth day of an offensive against a Kurdish militia, after U.S. troops in the region came under artillery fire from Turkish positions.
Turkey opened its offensive after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Sunday with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and withdrew U.S. troops who had been fighting alongside Kurdish forces.
A war monitor gave a death toll of more than 100 from the first days of the assault. The United Nations said 100,000 people had fled their homes.
On Saturday morning, Turkey's Defence Ministry said that 415 YPG militants had been "neutralized" since the operation began, a term that commonly means killed.
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