PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday told his Turkish counterpart that a U.N. call at the weekend for a ceasefire across Syria also applied to Syria's Afrin region. Turkey deployed police special forces to the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin on Monday for a 'new battle' in its five-week campaign against the Kurdish YPG militia. Macron also told Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call that it was imperative that the cease-fire be fully respected and added that France's monitoring of humanitarian access and chemical weapons is 'total and permanent,' Macron's office said in a statement.
