Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 12:36 AFP — With Turkish-led forces nearly surrounding Syria's Afrin city, some panicked residents are attempting to flee, others are stocking food fearing a siege, and Kurdish fighters are digging in for a tough fight.

Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 11:58 AFP — Turkey turned up the heat on Syria's Afrin Wednesday, launching deadly strikes on Damascus loyalists deployed around the Kurdish enclave and closing in on its main city.

Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 10:36 AFP — A top Syrian Kurdish official said on Wednesday that Turkish hopes of overrunning the Kurdish-controlled city of Afrin by nightfall were just a "daydream."

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Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 09:48 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said he hoped that the Kurdish-held Syrian city of Afrin would fall by the evening to Turkish forces who have surrounded it.

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Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 02:48 AFP — On March 16, 1988, as many as 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces.

Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 , 02:30 AFP — As a teenager Kamal Jalal saw two of his sisters killed when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's forces launched a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja.

Tuesday, 13 March, 2018 , 19:09 AFP — Turkey said Tuesday its army and allied rebels have surrounded the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria, raising the prospect of another devastating siege in the country's long conflict.