Death Toll in Turkish Raids on Syria Kurds Hits 28: Activists
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The toll in Turkish air raids on Kurdish positions in northeastern Syria rose to 28 killed, activists said Wednesday, a day after Ankara said it had targeted "terrorist havens" near its border.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of those killed were members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), AFP reported.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said 19 others were wounded in the Tuesday raids on a media center and other buildings in Al-Malikiyah, a town in Hasakeh province.
YPG spokesman Redur Khalil Tuesday said 20 fighters were killed and 18 wounded in the Turkish strikes.
Abdel Rahman said a female Kurdish fighter was among the dead.
Turkey, which backs Syrian militant groups and which launched a ground operation in northern Syria last year, vowed to continue acting against groups it links to the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
It also killed six Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq Tuesday in an apparent accident.
