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Syria Offensive: Turkey Warns US Over Kurdish Militia Group

23/01/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Syria Offensive: Turkey Warns US Over Kurdish Militia Group

Kurdish authorities in Afrin have called on civilians to help repel the Turkish incursion

Kurdish authorities in Afrin have called on civilians to help repel the Turkish incursion.

Turkey has urged the US to stop backing the Kurdish YPG in Syria, as it steps up an offensive against the militia, and the Kurdish authorities in Afrin have called on civilians to help repel the Turkish incursion.

Also in the programme: Two Reuters journalists are facing charges under the Official secrets act in Myanmar; and the anti apartheid activist and jazz giant, Hugh Masekela, has died.

Picture: Turkish troops advance near the Syria border at Hassa, in Turkey. Credit: Getty Images

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