Turkey announces full control in Syria’s Afrin region, delivers aid

Turkish armed forces announced on Saturday (March 24) that they had taken control of all areas in the Afrin region during their Olive Branch operation in Syria. The president of Turkish Red Crescent, Kerem Kinik, said in Afrin that his organization and other NGOs had been distributing food and aid in the city and the surrounding villages. After seizing control of Afrin, the main town in a pocket of Kurdish-controlled territory in northwest Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would also tar