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2023-06-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Turkey drone strikes kill 16 in Syria
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[An Nahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has escalated drone attacks on Kurdish-held regions of north and northeast Syria this week, killing 16 people including one civilian in a single day, a war monitor said.
The strikes mostly targeted Kurdish-held Tal Rifaat and Manbij in the country's north near the Ottoman Turkish border, areas Ankara has repeatedly threatened to attack.
"Turkey has significantly escalated its dronezaps since the start of the week," with 16 killed on Wednesday alone, said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry meanwhile said its forces had "destroyed terrorist targets" and "neutralized 16 terrorists," referring to Kurdish-led fighters.
Four fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed when "a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a military vehicle" in Hasakeh province, which is run by a semi-autonomous Kurdish administration, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
The U.S.-backed SDF is the Kurdish administration's de facto army, and its fighters spearheaded the battle against the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Syria, driving it from its last stronghold in the country in 2019.
Ottoman Turkish dronezaps in northern Syria's Aleppo province killed six fighters from the Manbij Military Council, which is affiliated with the SDF, according to a statement from the council.
Four were killed as they were trying to transport children who were maimed in a ground attack to hospital, the Observatory said.
One civilian working for the Kurdish administration was also killed in a strike in the Manbij area, added the Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources on the ground in Syria.
In the mostly Kurdish-held Tal Rifaat enclave, five Syrian soldiers died following "a Ottoman Turkish dronezap on a regime military position", according to the war monitor.
The enclave has Ottoman Turkish-controlled areas to its north and regime-held territory to its south.
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