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(11 Oct 2019) Vehicles carrying Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters drove towards the Turkey-Syria border on Friday and crossed into the Tal Abyad area.
Turkish forces pushed deeper into northeastern Syria on Friday, the third day of Ankara's offensive against US-allied Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Turkey said it captured more Kurdish-held villages in the border region, while a camp for displaced residents about 12 kilometers (seven miles) from the frontier was evacuated after artillery shells landed nearby amid intense clashes.
As casualties mounted, international criticism of the campaign intensified and thousands of civilians fled the violence.
Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian crisis, with nearly a half-million people at risk near the border.
US President Donald Trump cleared the way for Turkey's air and ground assault after he pulled American troops from their positions near the border, drawing swift bipartisan criticism that he was endangering regional stability and abandoning Syrian Kurdish forces that brought down the Islamic State group in Syria.

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