Five Turkish soldiers killed after Kurdish YPG destroys tank near Afrin (Video)

Five Turkish soldiers were killed when their tank was hit in an attack carried out by Kurdish YPG militia fighters on Saturday in northwest Syria’s Afrin region, Turkey’s armed forces said.

According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the latest attack brought to seven the number of Turkish soldiers killed on Saturday in Operation Olive Branch, which Turkey launched against the YPG in Afrin last month.

The Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) destroyed a Turkish Army tank in the Afrin region of northern Aleppo today.
According to the official media wing of the YPG, their forces scored a direct hit on the Turkish tank with an anti-tank missile (ATGM) in northwestern Afrin.
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