Morning mail: Turkey's Syria offensive, world's worst polluters, Rooney's Instagram sting

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said that a long-planned Turkish military operation in north-east Syria has begun, as Kurdish forces that currently control the area reported widespread airstrikes and “huge panic”. The move was triggered by Donald Trump’s announcement at the weekend that US troops would withdraw from the region, where thousands of captured Isis fighters and their families are held by Kurdish forces, and threatens to open a bloody new front in the Syrian war. Women and children in the largest Islamic State detention centre in Kurdish-controlled Syria are expecting to be freed in the wake of a Turkish assault on the area, according to people inside the camp. Al-Hawl is home to about 60,000 women and children with links to Isis and 10,000 displaced civilians.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/10/morning-mail-turkeys-syria-offensive-worlds-worst-polluters-rooneys-instagram-sting

German chancellor Angela Merkel, centre, stands with Rabbi Gesa S Ederberg, left, and other members of the Jewish community at the New Synagogue in Berlin

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