Turkey is preparing to provide additional financial and medical support to its closest ally in Syria, a group of Free Syrian Army (FSA) militias, in an effort to strengthen it by boosting morale.
The FSA militias fought alongside the Turkish army in Operation Euphrates Shield from August 2016 to March 2017 and are now participating in Operation Olive Branch. Some 614 FSA militants were killed in Euphrates Shield, the campaign to push back Syrian Kurdish and Islamic State forces in northern Syria, and so far 302 have been killed in Olive Branch, launched Jan. 20 against the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin.
