BEIRUT — A Turkish drone strike Tuesday
killed at least four people in a northeast Syrian city held by
Kurdish forces,
the latest in a flurry of attacks, a war monitor said.
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The Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack struck near a hospital in Qamishli, the de facto capital
of a semi-autonomous Kurdish administration that runs large parts of the
country’s northeast.
The four victims, all affiliated with the
administration, were killed while they dug trenches near Turkey’s border in
anticipation of a new offensive that Ankara has threatened to launch since May,
the monitor said.
The Kurdish-led
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) confirmed the attack in a statement, calling the four “fighters”.
Ankara has launched successive military offensives
in Syria. Most have targeted Kurdish militants that Ankara links to a group
waging a decades-long insurgency against it.
Turkey has stepped up its drone strikes in
Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria since a July 19 summit with Iran and Russia
failed to green-light a fresh offensive, according to Kurdish officials and the
Observatory.
A Turkish drone strike on Qamishli over the weekend
killed four people, including two siblings, said the Observatory.
The SDF, the Syrian Kurds’ de facto army, has
counted at least 13 of its members killed in several Turkish attacks since July
19.
Syria’s conflict, which began in March 2011, has killed
nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war
population.
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