Syria: Turkey war planes launch strikes on Afrin

until the bombardment started yesterday, i hadn't been watching the [map](https://syria.liveuamap.com/) because its been so boring >_> to summarize whats been happening as i've seen it so far: - the sdf enclave of afrin is ~90% surrounded by turkish regulars, separated by ~20 miles from the rest of sdf held territory. - the russians who were patrolling the area told sdf to leave because turkey was going to invade and retreated to their camps. - so far only relatively minor land skirmishes have occurred. - turkish supported rebels may be attacking afrin rather than defend against the syrian gov't in idlib province - no attacks appear to be coming directly from rebel held idlib yet, but a couple miles from idlib, inside turkey, there appears to be syrian rebel presence preparing to enter afrin area. - syrian gov't appears to be denouncing the move. - sdf could attack turkish regulars and rebels from US-patrolled sdf territory, US is still patrolling very openly. - US has repeated its position in syria is only to stop isis.