Turkey Defiant after Assault on Kurdish Enclave

There have been international calls for restraint after Turkey launched a ground offensive against a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria. A top Turkish Nato official told Newshour that instead of supporting an ally, the United States had backed the creation of a Syrian border force including YPG fighters, who posed a direct threat to Turkey

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(Photo: Turkish army tank near the Syrian border. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)