Turkish troops gain ground in Ras al Ayn – war monitor
Turkish troops and Syrian National Army gained ground in Ras al Ayn, a key border town where YPG is being fought, a war monitor said.
"There have been intensive air strikes on Ras al Ayn over the past three days," Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
Turkish forces and the mostly Arab and Turkmen former rebels in the ground force had "taken about half of the town" by Thursday morning, he said.
Massively outgunned by the Turkish army and its airforce, the YPG quickly lost a long stretch of the border when the assault was launched on October 9.
YPG killed over 1,000 people in northern Syria – NGO
A rights watchdog has accused the YPG of killing 1,157 civilians in northern Syria from 2012 until September of 2019.
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), 203 of the victims were children and 47 people –– including one child ––were tortured to death.
The human rights violations were documented in the provinces of Al Hasakah, Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo, Hama, and Homs.
Some 3,100 people are in detention centres held by the terrorist group in northern Syria, the SNHR said.
SNHR is a non-profit organisation that documents human rights violations in Syria since 2011.
'Don't be a tough guy' – Trump letter warns Erdogan
US President Donald Trump warned Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan in a letter about Turkey's operation in Syria "don't be a tough guy".
The October 9 letter was released by the White House on Wednesday as Trump battled to control the political damage following his decision to pull the US troops out of northern Syria, clearing the way for the Turkish operation against America's terrorist allies.
"Let's work out a good deal!" Trump said in the letter. "You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy – and I will."
Trump's letter release came after US lawmakers have been sharply critical of his decision to remove American forces from the conflict zone.
The president wrote that the commander of the US-backed PKK/YPG Mazloum Kobani Abdi was willing to negotiate and to make some concessions.
He said he had confidentially enclosed to Erdogan a copy of a letter Mazloum had sent him.
Pence and Pompeo scheduled to meet Erdogan
Tough talks on Syria are expected in Ankara on Thursday as Turkish President Erdogan is scheduled to meet the US Vice President Mike Pence and the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Ahead of their flight, the top US diplomats said they want to find a solution to the situation in Syria that threatens the relationship between Turkey and the US.
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