BEIRUT: A rebel alliance said that eight Turkey-backed Syrian fighters were killed in clashes with regime troops that raged Monday in the country’s northwest.
Faylaq al-Sham group said in a statement that six of its fighters were killed and three more injured in an offensive launched by Syrian government forces backed by Kurdish fighters on Sunday night.
Two fighters killed in Afrin
Later, it said two more fighters had been killed in the clashes in the Afrin region near the Turkish border, taking the death toll to eight. – AFP/APP
