The Turkish operation against Kurdish militants in northern Syria has begun, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

At least 33 people were killed in a US-led coalition strike on a school used as a centre for displaced people near a jihadi-held town in Syria, a monitor said Wednesday.

Syrian insurgents clashed in a town near the Turkish border on Monday as inter-rebel tensions spilled over, playing to President Bashar al-Assad's advantage with the government tightening its grip on rebel-held eastern Aleppo.