French calls for emergency Security Council meeting on Syria

French calls for emergency Security Council meeting on Syria

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"Ghouta, Idlib, Afrin - France asks for an urgent meeting of the Security Council," Le Drian said on his Twitter feed. He added that he had spoken with his Turkish counterpart on Sunday morning.

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province on Sunday, the army said, after Turkey launched artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border.

(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Susan Fenton)

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