The Debate: Pro-Government Forces Entering Syria’s Afrin Amid Turkish Operation. Afrin Residents Celebrate Arrival of Pro-Govt. Forces
- PressTV Published on Feb 22, 2018
Is Syria’s Afrin a powderkeg? President Assad says the “brutal Turkish aggression cannot be separated from the regime’s policy from the 1st day of Syria’s crisis, which was built on supporting terror.” While Turkey & Syria standoff over Afrin, Western uproar is growing over Syria’s actions in Eastern Ghouta, with no mention of militant shelling of Damascus from that region, as well as the use of civilians of human shields by militants. How should these escalating fronts be assessed?