Mar 23, 2018

Nearly 170,000 people have fled after a Turkish-led assault on the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Afrin, the UN said Friday, pointing to the harrowing conditions faced by those displaced.

"The estimate now is 167,000 people have been displaced by hostilities in Afrin district," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva.

He said most of those who had left had gone to nearby Tal Rifaat.

The World Health Organization (WHO) meanwhile said it had deployed mobile medical clinics and health supplies to areas hosting those displaced from Afrin, warning that health services inside the city were al

so lacking.