Kurdish doctor Farid Mustafa was one of the last to flee Ras al-Ain as Turkish b...
BEIRUT - Kurdish doctor Farid Mustafa was one of the last to flee Ras al-Ain as Turkish bombs rained down on the Syrian border town. He fears may never return home.
Some 100,000 people have fled their homes since Turkey mounted its offensive in northeast Syria on Wednesday, moving away from the border and deeper into the region - which the Kurdish YPG militia and its allies control. “I’m not worried about my house, let it be destroyed,” he said. “But what if my town is gone, what will I do?” he said.
Still, U.S. forces have not all gone. Dozens of Syrians fled towards one the U.S. bases outside the mainly Kurdish town of Kobani after it was shelled, some taking their cattle with them, a witness and a local official said. That now looks in jeopardy. The Turkish offensive deals yet another blow to an ethnic group left stateless when the Ottoman Empire collapsed a century ago and the Kurds were scattered between Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey.
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