The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

9th attack in August | Turkish drone targets car near regime governmental institution in rural Al-Qamishli, leaving three dead and wounded

Al-Hasakah province: SOHR sources have reported that a Turkish drone attacked a car in Malla Sbat village in Al-Qamishli countryside, where regime forces are deployed, as well as targeting centres affiliated to the Syrian regime’s institutions used for storage of grains. The attack left three people who were travelling in the targeted car dead and wounded.

 

Accordingly, the number of Turkish drone attacks in August has risen to nine.

 

Turkey has escalated its aerial operations on areas under the control of the Autonomous Administration in north and north-east Syria in the first week of August.

 

From August 3 to August 9, Turkish aircraft waged eight drone attacks, targeting vehicles, outposts, and an outdoors market in Al-Hasakah countryside. These attacks left nine people: two children and seven SDF fighters, dead. In addition, at least six people sustained various injuries.

 

Accordingly, the number of attacks carried out by Turkish drones on areas controlled by the “Autonomous Administration in northern and north-eastern Syria, AANES” since early 2022 has reached 51. These attacks left four civilians and 41 combatants, including two children and 13 females, dead, while over 83 others sustained various injuries. Here is a monthly distribution of attacks by Turkish drones in 2022:

 

  • January: Three attacks left three people dead and 13 others injured.

 

  • February: Ten attacks killed eight people, including two children and a young female fighter, and injured 21 others.

 

  • March: Two attacks injured two people.

 

  • April: 11 attacks left six people dead, including three women, and 19 others injured.

 

  • May: Four attacks left three people dead, including a woman, and seven others injured.

 

  • June: Three attacks left a combatant dead and five others injured.

 

  • July: Three attacks left a civilian and 13 combatants, including seven women, dead and ten others injured.

 

  • August: Nine attacks left three civilians, including two children, and seven combatants, including a prominent commander, dead. In addition, six others were injured.