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The Turkish-backed rebels of The Free Syrian army, pictured here crossing The Border to Syria, are also reported to be involved in the offensive

Heavy fighting in Northern Syria on the second day of a Turkish offensive in the Kurdish-held areas.

Turkey says it has A Number of designated targets and killed dozens of Kurdish fighters seized.

tens of thousands of people are reported that the escape to report their homes to the Kurds and several dead civilians.

Turkey says it wants to create a "safe zone" be cleared, the Kurdish militias, the houses also house some of the millions of Syrian refugees.

The long-planned Turkish offensive began, after President Donald Trump pulled the US troops from the Region, which has been held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces (SDF). The SDF have been important US allies in the fight against the Islamic state (IS) group, but Turkey, too, in terms of their dominant Kurdish militias as terrorists.

Many in the U.S., including some of Mr. Trump's Republican allies, saw the resignation as effectively a green light to enter Turkey, although the Secretary of state, Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denied this. The SDF said that she was "stabbed in the back".

Mr Trump tweeted on Thursday that he had tried to end "endless wars", but added: "I say to hit Turkey very hard, financially & with sanctions if they don't play by The Rules ! I'm watching very closely. "He also said he was "in the conversation for both sides".

drawn by the offensive, The International ostracism. The UN security Council is to discuss about it on Thursday at The Request of their current five EU members - the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Poland.

A major concern for The International community to the fate of thousands of alleged IS-prisoners, including many foreigners, guarded by Kurdish troops in the region.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly defended the incident, threatening to send the Syrian refugees it hosts to Europe, when the Turkish offensive as a profession.

What is happening on the ground?

The Turkish-led offensive, which, between the cities of Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad in the Central area of Syria's border with Turkey. A Number of villages were to The East taken from Tal Abyad caught.

the Turkish-backed Syrian rebels from The Free Syrian army, were also involved in the fighting. A spokesman for The Rebels said Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad had was surrounded.

The SDF said there had been heavy attacks by Turkish aircraft and artillery on Ras al-Ain, with losses among civilians.

Mr Erdogan said 109 fighters killed, injured or captured in the first fight. The SDF said the figure was an exaggeration.

The UK-based monitoring group, said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , at least 16 SDF fighters were killed and dozens more injured.

A SDF-Twitter-account said, an attack by the Turkish armed forces in The East of the Jalab river was beaten back, with three military vehicles destroyed and 22 enemy fighters killed.

The Kurdish Red Crescent said that at least seven civilians killed so far, two of them children, and at least 19 injured, more difficult, including four children.

The International Rescue Committee, a relief organization, said that a total of 64,000 people fled from their homes had to according to reports, and if the offensive could continue to exceed 300,000.

the Kurdish authorities accused Turkey of shelling of a prison IS to keep prisoners in Qamishli in The East , The Border region, which will help in a "clear attempt" to escape them.

The BBC's Orla Guerin says that at least three rounds of what appeared to be retaliation Kurdish artillery fire hits on the main road to the Turkish town of Akcakale. Two People , including a Syrian baby, were reportedly killed.

What is the resistance of the Kurdish troops?

to say The SDF-number currently around 40,000 fighters, with tens of thousands of other parallel Kurdish security forces, Kurdish sources.

The U.S. joint Task Force in the operations against the IS in Iraq and Syria, describing it as "a tough fighter with a degree of basic military training as infantrymen".

But you have a lack of heavy weapons that could be used against tanks or planes, although some units of anti-tank missiles.

In operations against you based on a narrow coalition support from the air, but in The Flat , open countryside of Syria's Northern border, they are vulnerable to air and artillery.

Turkey regards the Kurdish YPG Militia was the dominant force in the SDF is an extension of the banned Kurdistan workers ' party, which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades.

How will the intervention impact on the situation?

The SDF to say, you hold More Than 12,000 suspected members in seven prisons, and at least 4,000 of them are foreigners. The exact locations were not revealed, but some are reported to be in the vicinity of the Turkish border.

Two camps - Roj and Ain Issa holding company of the families of suspected IS members are within the "safe zone". It is unclear whether the Kurds will continue to guard the prisons, when the fight breaks out.

The US military says it has taken.

The two men, El Shafi Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey , were part of a British cell of the nickname given to The Beatles . They have now been removed, to result in a prison of the Kurdish-led Militia in Northern Syria.

A senior Kurdish official also told the BBC that some of the foreign prisoners would be relocated in North-East Syria.

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