The «world's highest battlefield» has claimed thousands of lives due to hostile weather conditions — frostbite, avalanches and blizzards — along with over a hundred soldiers killed in sporadic combat until 2003, when the two countries agreed to
a ceasefire across the Line of Control in Kashmir.
More than 150,000 people fled Afrin in recent days, the Syrian Observatory said, as Turkey pressed on with its campaign despite a U.N. Security Council call for a 30 - day
ceasefire across Syria.