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The Turkish air force conducted its first strikes in 17 months against a zone in north Syria held by Kurdish militia on Saturday night, according to a UK-based activist group.
“A Turkish fighter jet has struck military positions of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Saida village in Ain Issa countryside… which caused loud explosions,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Earlier this week, one person was killed and eight others were injured in an airstrike launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen’s northeast.
Yemen’s Houthi movement announced on Friday that it had launched six armed drones targeting a Saudi Aramco facility in Riyadh. To date, the Saudi authorities have not confirmed the attack or any damage sustained as a result of it.
A Syrian military statement said that Israel launched an attack on targets in the vicinity of Damascus on Tuesday but air defenses managed to shoot down a number of missiles.
“At exactly 22:35 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan against some targets in the vicinity of Damascus.
Syrians paint a mural on the remains of a building to mark 10 years of the Syrian war, in the opposition-held town of Binnish in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, March 11, 2021. (AFP)
The overall death toll for Syria’s civil war has reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this month, a war monitor said Sunday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the figures include almost 117,388 civilians, among them more than 22,000 children.
The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi movement has said it conducted air raids on Houthi military targets in Sanaa and other regions after the group launched armed drones towards Saudi Arabia.
“The military operation targets Houthi military capabilities in Sanaa and a number of other provinces,” the coalition said in a statement carried by Saudi state media on Sunday.