Turkey may be guilty of WAR CRIMES after Kurdish fighters are executed and civilians bombed, UN warns, as 70,000 kids made homeless by Erdogan invasion

TURKEY may be guilty of war crimes after Kurdish fighters were executed and civilians bombed in Northern Syria, the United Nations has warned.

The organisation's human rights wing said it has documented civilian casualties caused by air strikes, ground strikes and sniper fire every day since the Turkish offensive began.

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Meanwhile Kurds in northern Syria claim more than 275,000 people - including more than 70,000 children - have been displaced since the invasion.

Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies launched a military offensive into Kurdish-held parts of the northeast saying it aims to defeat the Kurdish YPG militia which it sees as terrorists.

However, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has now accused Turkey-backed fighters of killing a Kurdish politician in an ambush on a road in northern Syria on Saturday.

UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said footage also appeared to show executions of three Kurdish captives carried out by Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighters, affiliated with Turkey.

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“Turkey could be deemed responsible as a state for violations by their affiliated groups as long as Turkey exercises effective control of these groups or the operations in the course of which those violations occurred,” Colville told a news briefing.

“We urge Turkish authorities immediately to launch an impartial, transparent and independent investigation and to apprehend those responsible, some of whom should be easily identifiable from the video footage they themselves shared on social media,” he said.

UN war crimes investigators would follow up on all incidents, he pledged.

At least 14 civilians, including two journalists, were killed and dozens injured when a convoy was hit by a Turkish air strike on the Syrian town of Ras al Ain on Sunday, Colville said.

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The UN had reports of alleged air and ground-based strikes on five health facilities by Turkish forces and affiliated groups.

It had reports of attacks on civilian infrastructure, including power lines, water supplies and bakeries, he said.

Turkish authorities have reported that 18 civilians were killed in Turkey, including a nine-month-old baby, by cross-border mortar and sniper fire by Kurdish fighters, he said.

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Today it was revealed US troops ordered to abandon their SDF allies in the face of the invasion drove past Syrian troops going the opposite direction to defend them.

Video taken outside of the city of Kobane on Monday shows a convoy of American tactical vehicles driving away from the conflict zone with the stars and stripes flying.

Driving in the opposite direction is a Toyota truck filled with troops belonging to Bashar al-Assad, with the Syrian government flag hoisted above the driver's cab.

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