Turkish fire on Syria's Afrin kills 18 civilians: monitor

Turkish artillery fire on the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin in northern Syria killed at least 18 civilians on Friday, a monitor said. "Since midnight (2200 GMT Thursday), 18 civilians, including five children, were killed by Turkish artillery fire on the city of Afrin," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"There is fighting on the northern edge of the city," the Britain-based monitoring organisation said.