The Turkish Army shelled positions held by Kurdish-backed militia in northern Syria for a second day. Two fighters have been killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
On Saturday, Turkey demanded the powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia withdraw from areas that it had captured in the northern Aleppo region from insurgents in Syria. The YPG controls nearly all of Syria’s northern frontier with Turkey, and has been a close ally of the United States in the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria.
Ankara views the group as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three decade old insurgency for autonomy in southeast Turkey.
