SANDAF, Syria (AFP) — Syria's grinding conflict has already uprooted Ahmed Yassin and his family several times, but now they fear a threatened Turkish offensive will force them to flee the muddy camp they call home.

The 34-year-old, his wife and two children live in Sandaf in Syria's Aleppo province — just south of the border with Turkey, and under the control of Turkish-backed rebels.

"Making a living is hard," the laborer told AFP in the impoverished camp, as sheep grazed on the roadside nearby.

"On top of everything we've gone through — the misery, the lack of job opportunities and poverty… we are now threatened with displacement yet again."

On 20 November, Turkey began air strikes on Kurdish-held areas of Syria and Iraq in response to a deadly bombing in Istanbul the previous week.