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Humanitarian Concerns Mount as Turkish Incursion into Syria Widens

Dale Gavlak

   AMMAN, JORDAN - Humanitarian concerns are growing as Turkey's military
   incursion into northeastern Syria widens and desperate civilians flee
   on tractors, trucks and motorcycles, becoming the region's newest
   refugees. International and local aid agencies fear that hundreds of
   thousands of people could be at risk, as Turkey launches airstrikes and
   pursues a ground offensive to clear once-U.S.-backed Kurdish forces
   from the border area.

   Chaotic scenes are being repeated of frightened Kurdish, Syriac
   Christian and Yazidi civilians escaping on foot, carrying plastic bags
   with their worldly goods, while others are herded onto trucks or
   motorcycles, enveloped in plumes of dust from the latest Turkish
   bombardment of their land. Roads are gridlocked with hundreds of
   fleeing families saying they don't know where to go for safety.
   

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