"They killed my children for no reason," Kuli Maho, 70, told AFP as she wept for her three sons and grandson. On Monday evening, fighters of the US-sanctioned Ahrar al-Sharqiya group opened fire on people who had lit a fire for Nowruz, killing four of them and wounding three, according to Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Elham Ahmad, a senior official of the Kurdish administration that retains control of much of the northeast, accused "Turkey and terrorist factions" it backs of "crimes against humanity" in the Afrin area