Turkish ground troops and pro-Turkish rebels from the Free Syrian Army have crossed into northern Syria to clear Kurdish militia from the Syrian province of Afrin.
Turkey says the YPG militia, which forms part of the US-backed alliance battling Islamic State in the region, is aligned with the banned Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).
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