Against australia. Good evening. Turkey is being urged to show restraint tonight, as it continues an offensive into Northern Syria that its feared will further destabilise a war torn region. Turkish troops crossed the border with syria as part of a military effort to target a Kurdish Militia in the province of afrin. The Kurdish Group has been backed by the United States in the fight against so called Islamic State. But turkey regards it as a terrorist organisation. From the border, mark lowen reports on a potential new front in the syrian war. As if syria needed more of this. Artillery fire from turkey, launching a new ground and air offensive. Its called operation olive branch, though its anything but a gesture of peace. From the air, turkish f 16s struck yesterday. Their target the syrian Kurdish Militia, or ypg. Turkey sees them as terrorists, linked to the outlawed pkk, who have long fought an insurgency in turkey on behalf of the kurdish minority. And it wants them pushed back fr
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