INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Turkish airstrikes have seriously damaged an ancient temple in Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region, the Syrian government and a monitoring group said.
Pictures circulated online showed what appeared to be a crater in the centre of the Ain Dara site and rubble where there used to be carved basalt lions.
The Neo-Hittite temple was built by the Arameans in the first millennium BC.
Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels launched an offensive to push a Kurdish militia out of Afrin nine days ago.
The Turkish government says the People's Protection Units (YPG) is an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in south-eastern Turkey for three decades.
