TEHRAN: Key Damascus ally Iran on Tuesday renewed its call on Ankara to enda deadly assault on northeastern Syria, as Turkey pressed a cross-borderoffensive against Kurdish forces.
“The imperative now is to end the incursion into #Syria,” Iranian ForeignMinister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter.
Iran had on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the offensive,launched on October 9 after the United States announced it would withdrawall its troops from the area.
Since then, Syria’s massively outgunned Kurds have forged a deal withDamascus, allowing regime soldiers to redeploy in the Kurd-controlledregion for the first time since 2012.
Read Top Stories
Despite international outcry over its assault, Turkey has vowed to pursueits offensive, slamming the “dirty deal” between President Basharal-Assad’s regime and Kurdish forces. -APP/AFP
