SDF commander killed in Turkish drone attack: SOHR

He was reportedly traveling near the Nusaybin border-crossing with Turkey in Qamishlo in the Hasakah province.

Wladimir van Wilgenburg 2023/04/14 15:17

The vehicle targeted by the Turkish drone attack (Photo: SOHR)

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces was killed in an attack by a Turkish drone in the early hours of Friday morning, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports.

He was reportedly traveling near the Nusaybin border-crossing with Turkey in Qamishlo in the Hasakah province. Another person, who was escorting the commander, was injured and taken to a hospital.

So far, the SDF has not confirmed the death of its commander. Also, SOHR has not identified the name of the killed commander.

This comes a week after the leader of Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, survived a Turkish drone attack in the perimeter of Sulaimani International Airport in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

SOHR also said this is the first drone attack since February 22, when a Turkish drone killed a civilian and injured a commander of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) on the road between Al-Qamishli and Al-Qahtaniyah.

SOHR reports that Turkey has carried out a total of 11 drone attacks in northeast Syria in 2023.