Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of (a) which Islamist groups were involved in Turkey’s intervention in Afrin and (b) the level of collaboration between those groups and the Turkish armed forces.

​The UK is not involved in the Turkish-led operation in Afrin and we cannot provide comprehensive information about it. We understand that a number of different Syrian armed groups were involved in the operation with Turkish support including air support and artillery strikes.