Syria regime sends men to support YPG in Afrin countryside Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels battling Kurdish militia in northern Syria advanced on Saturday to less than two kilometres from the flashpoint town of Afrin, a war monitor said. The Syrian regime has also sent men to the area to support the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara regards as a "terror group". IMAGES of progovernment forces deploying in the southern countryside of Afrin