Syria: Kurds in Qamishli protest against Turkish Afrin operation Syrian Kurds protested Monday in the northeastern city of Qamishli against the Turkish operation on the Syrian border enclave of Afrin. Two days earlier Ankara-backed rebels progressed against the Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, arriving within two kilometres (just over one mile) of the flashpoint town of Afrin, the Syrian Observatory said. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES