(MENAFN) Kurdish militias have asked the Syrian government represented by Bashar al-Assad to intervene and protect the area's borders.
Turkey's assaults on Afrin could challenge Kurdish ambitions for self-governance and, if heeded, could set the stage for a direct military confrontation between Ankara and Damascus.
It could also create an open alliance between the US-backed Kurdish forces and a legitimate government that Washington had desperately tried to unseat for years.
"While we insist that we will continue to defend Afrin against rabid external attacks and will confront the Turkish attempts at occupying Afrin, we invite the Syrian state to carry out its sovereign duties towards Afrin and to protect its borders with Turkey from attack," the autonomous authority governing Afrin said in a statement on Thursday.
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