Pro-Turkish opposition forces storm Kurdish-held city in NW Syria: war monitor

DAMASCUS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces on Sunday began an offensive on a Kurdish-controlled city in northwestern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based war monitor.

The forces, which Türkiye refers to as the "Syrian National Army," attacked Tel Rifaat, a city in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province, and "there are viol