Syria: bombings in north of country are twenty -one people, including several children

Turkish soldiers led several offensives against the Syrian Kurdish forces which control most of the northeast of the country. The clashes on this territory have become daily.

Le Monde with AFP

The confrontations between the loyal forces with the Syrian regime and the Turkish army continue in northern Syria and continue to make victims. At least twenty -one civilians, including children, were killed on Friday August 19.

Friday before dawn, a Turkish drone attack hit “a center for minor girls” in the locality of Chmouka, near Hassaké in northeast Syria, killing “four children and [by] injuring 11 “The Kurdish autonomous administration announced. The balance sheet was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH), who said that the children were sleeping in this center, in Hassaké, a city located in the Kurdish autonomous region.

In al-Bab, a locality under the control of Syrian pro-Ankara factions, located near the syro-turque border, it is “artillery fire shots on a market” that killed seventeen civilians , including six children, according to the OSDH. Thirty-five people were also injured.

Farhad Shami, a spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (FDS), the armed coalition dominated by the Kurds, said that his forces had “nothing to do” with shots on al-Bab.

Several Turkish offensives

Near Syria, Turkey deploys soldiers, with the support of Syrian rebel groups that are affiliated to it, near its border with Syria. The Turkish soldiers led several offensives against the Syrian Kurdish forces which control most of the northeast of the country.

Ankara has threatened a major offensive against the SDF since May, considered “terrorists” by Ankara. Since July, Turkish drones have been hitting the FDS controlled areas more and more often, according to the OSDH and Kurdish officials.