Washington – Turkey increased its drone strikes Thursday against targets in Kurdish-held areas in northern Syria killing at least 10 people across the
Washington – Turkey increased its drone strikes Thursday against targets in Kurdish-held areas in northern Syria, killing at least 10 people across the region, local officials said.
A VOA reporter in Qamishli, Syria, reported that at least 18 drone attacks were carried out across northern Syria. Some of the attacks targeted civilian infrastructure in the region, including one on a power station and another near a camp hosting internally displaced people, the Kurdish Red Crescent said.
U.S.-led forces that are present in the region as part of a global coalition against the Islamic State terror group were reported by Reuters to have shot down one of the drones. But a Turkish defense official told the news agency that the drone in question did not belong to the Turkish military. The coalition has not commented on the reported incident.
The increased attacks come days after the Kurdistan Workers‘ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that targeted Turkey’s Interior Ministry headquarters in Ankara.
