Turkish army hits 146 facilities in NE Syria in 72 hours
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The toll of the facilities targeted by the Turkish forces in north and northeast Syria region from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8 has become 146.
The targeted facilities included 24 infrastructure buildings, 87 residential buildings, 24 military sites (14 of which are of the Syrian government forces), six agricultural farms, three factories, a school, and a hospital, according to the Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press.
On Oct. 5, the Turkish army launched drone strikes on the infrastructure of several areas of north and northeast Syria that is run by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). The strikes took place following a statement by Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan, in which he threatened to strike a broader range of targets in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for the Ankara attack.
On Oct. 1, two individuals carried out a bomb attack in front of the building of the Ministry of Interior in Turkey’s Ankara injuring two police officers.
On Oct. 4, Fidan claimed that the two assailants who carried out the attack had been trained in Syria. “From now on, all infrastructure, large facilities and energy facilities belonging to (armed Kurdish groups) in Iraq and Syria are legitimate targets for our security forces,” he threatened.
The department recorded that the facilities were hit by 209 strikes, 132 of which are by artillery and heavy weapons, 21 by fighter jets, and 55 by drones.
As for the toll of the victims, it is as follows: 28 people casualties, 17 of them died including 11 civilians (one of them was a woman), and 11 others were injured including nine civilians (one of them was a child).
The strikes on the region was recorded as follows: 33 on Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, where the IDP Kurds of Afrin have been taking shelter since 2018, 29 on the town of Ain Issa (north of Raqqa), 26 on Hasakah, 21 on Qamishli, 17 on Kobani, nine on Derik (al-Malikiyah), seven on Manibj, and four on Raqqa northern countryside.