Amid escalating Turkish air strikes on Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria after Sunday’s armed attack on National Police headquarters in Ankara, the US shot down a Turkish drone in Syria.
Turkey bombs northeast Syria, hits energy sites: Kurds
Turkey resumed strikes against Kurdish-held northeast Syria on Friday, targeting energy infrastructure as the death toll climbed to 15 over two days, officials in the Kurds’ semi-autonomous administration said.
In Lebanon, less than half of the 4 million people that need humanitarian aid have received help, UN says
According to the U.N., four million people in Lebanon are in need of food, including Syrians, Palestinian refugees, and migrants. However less than half have received humanitarian aid.
Turkey Says Bombers Came From Syria, Eyes Cross-Border Targets
Turkey has carried out several cross-border incursions into northern Syria in recent years targeting the YPG militia that it sees as an affiliate of the PKK, which is now based in northern Iraq.
Turkey says 26 militants ‘neutralised’ as conflict escalates in Syria
Turkey’s military “neutralised” 26 Kurdish militants in northern Syria overnight in retaliation for a rocket attack on a Turkish base, the defence ministry said on Friday as conflict escalated nearly a week after a bomb attack in Ankara.
US shoots down Turkish drone flying near its troops in Syria
Turkey’s defence ministry says the device did not belong to the country’s armed forces …
US jet shoots down Turkish drone in Syria, officials say
The United States on Thursday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, U.S. officials said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally …
US shoots down Turkish drone over Syria
US F-16 warplanes shot down a drone belonging to NATO ally Turkey in Syria on Thursday. The United States and Turkey typically coordinate their militaries’ air operations in Syria, however, US troops …
Drone attack kills at least 80 at a packed Syria military graduation ceremony
Syria’s military blamed “terrorist organisations” for a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony in the city Homs that killed at least 80 people and wounded 240. There was no immediate claim of …
At keast 80 killed as Syrian military college hit in drone attack
A drone attack on a military college in Syria’s Homs province during a graduation ceremony has killed and wounded civilians and military personnel dead, according to the Syrian officials.