Afrin
Many of those settling in the town come from the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, changing the population balance from predominantly Kurdish to majority Arab
Mixed Turkish and
Syrian rebel control
Turkey
Kurdish
control
Aleppo
Idlib
Rebel
control
Syrian
government
control
Syria
Damascus
50 km
50 miles
Afrin
Many of those settling in the town come from the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, changing the population balance from predominantly Kurdish to majority Arab
Mixed Turkish and
Syrian rebel control
Turkey
Kobane
Euphrates
River
Manbij
Kurdish control
Aleppo
Lake Assad
Raqqa
Idlib
Rebel
control
Area under
Syrian government
control
Latakia
Syria
Hama
Damascus
50 km
50 miles