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Afrin Canton (Kurdish: Kantona Efrînê; Arabic: مقاطعة عفرين; Classical Syriac: ܦܠܩܐ ܕܥܦܪܝܢ, romanized: Pelqā dha-ʻAfrin) was one of the cantons of Rojava...

Afrin (Arabic: عفرين, romanized: Ifrīn; Kurdish: ئەفرین, romanized: Efrîn) is a Kurdish majority city in northern Syria. In the Afrin District, it is...

People's Protection Units (YPG) around 2012 and an "Afrin Canton" was declared in 2014, followed by an "Afrin Region" in 2017. During Operation Olive Branch...

Syria. The region previously had two subordinate cantons, the Afrin Canton, consisting of the Afrin city area (with the Şêrewa, Mobata, Şêra and Maydankah...

the Democratic Union Party (PYD) prime minister of the Afrin Region (originally Afrin Canton until August 2017), a de facto autonomous region of the...

dictionary. Afrin may refer to: Afrin Canton, one of the cantons of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria Afrin District, a...

and East Syria as part of the Afrin Region. Accordingly, the canton initially included Manbij, but by 2019, Shahba Canton had been restructured and only...

But in HXP's logo of Afrin Canton, there is another Kurdish name "Hêza Parastina Xweser" which may be only used in this canton. In some Kurdish news...

who were educated in special canton schools East Cantons, a region of eastern Belgium Afrin Canton, one of the cantons of the autonomous Democratic Federation...

Turkish Armed Forces and Syrian National Army (SNA) in the majority-Kurdish Afrin District of northwest Syria, against the People's Protection Units (YPG)...

for the Jazira Canton (now Jazira Region), 8.5% for the Kobani Canton (now Euphrates Region), 8.5% for the Afrin Canton (later Afrin Region), 15% for...

laissez-faire regarding Turkey's Operation Olive Branch entering SDF-held Afrin canton, stating that Russia was making a strategic mistake. Asia Times One Turkish...

Turkey-backed FSA made contact near Mare with the SDF forces from the Afrin Canton. Contact between the two saw the group attack some SDF-held towns with...

fear of reprisal. After the Turkish-led forces had captured Afrin District (Afrin Canton) in early 2018, they began to implement a resettlement policy...

fired over 20 mortar shells at the town of Jindires in the southwestern Afrin Canton, destroying several residential buildings and causing a number of casualties...

disagreements over the participation in a planned Turkish-led offensive against Afrin Canton, although a small faction within the group (known simply as Saladin Brigade)...

face of Turkey's invasion of the Afrin canton, a unit of international volunteers called the Anti-Fascist Forces in Afrin (AFFA) was formed, and the members...

targets of our forces. Our forces will target all the elements in the Afrin Canton that are in contact or cooperation with the Turkish invasion state."...

held Afrin canton. Al Zenki tried to take some of its tanks and armored forces into Afrin, but these were destroyed. After withdrawing to Afrin on 5 February...

Afrin District is mainly inhabited by Kurdish Alevis. In 2014, the Alevi Hêvî Îbrahîm became the Prime Minister of the then-Kurdish controlled Afrin Canton...