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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey bombards Rojava town, causing civilian casualties: reports
2021-08-18
[Rudaw] At least one civilian was killed in Ottoman Turkish bombardment in northeast Syrian (Rojava) on Tuesday evening, according to a local media outlet and a conflict monitor.

The Ottoman Turkish army bombarded Zarkan district in Hasaka province.

One child was killed and five other civilians were maimed in the bombardment, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet affiliated with the Rojava administration, reported that a four-year-old child and a woman were killed and more than 10 people were maimed.

The casualties were brought to Dirbesiye hospital, ANHA reported.

In October 2019, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
launched an offensive against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria. Ceasefires were brokered by Moscow and Washington, but the truces are frequently violated. Earlier this month, a father and his three children were killed in a Ottoman Turkish bombing near Ain Issa.
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