Members of the Free Syrian Army have been joining to fight alongside Turkish troops. By nightfall Turkish troops seemed to have advanced only a few miles into Syria. Syrian fighters allied with Turkish forces claimed to have seized control of Shankal, a village on the northwestern edge of the Afrin district, but Kurdish fighters rejected the claim. Hanadi Hafsi, a homemaker who lives in Reyhanli, a border district in Turkey, said two Syrians and a Turk died Sunday afternoon from shelling by Kurdish militias. Turkish officials said that only one Syrian had refugee died and that 37 people were wounded.

Source: New York Times January 22, 2018 00:13 UTC