This map provides a general look at the military situation in Syria’s Afrin after the three days of Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch. The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) captured a number of villages north and west of Afrin but failed to establish control over the strategic mount of Birsaya. The main problem of Turkey-led forces is a low persistence of FSA fighters. In some cases, they hadwithdrawn from the recently captured positions without showing a significant resistance to Kurdish YPG/YPJ forces.
