UN and Turkish officials said refugees fleeing fighting in northern
Aleppo have headed to the border crossing. The governor of border town
Kilis said 35,000 refugees had reached the area by Saturday.
In Aleppo Province: A leading Kurdish source in Afrin area (which is controlled by YPG)
reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the YPG met with
leaders of factions in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and agreed to
secure a haven and shelter for the displaced Syrians who are stuck on
the Syrian–Turkish border, near Bab al-Salamah border crossing, and the
sources confirmed to the Observatory that according to the agreement
they will open a humanitarian corridor from Azaz to Afrin for the
families displaced from their towns and villages in the countryside of
Aleppo, and to provide immediate treatment for the emergencies and ill
people who need to be treated as fast as possible, as well as to
accommodate the largest number of them in Afrin area, and transfer
another part of them to Idlib countryside passing through Afrin area,
under the supervision and protection of the YPG, which will work to
secure the road for them, it is worth mentioning that thousands of
Syrian citizens are still stuck on the Syrian–Turkish border, and they
were not allowed by Turkish authorities to enter its territory yet,
while some of them entered the Syrian side of Bab al-Salamah border
crossing.
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