Smoke rising near the city of Idlib, in northwestern Syria, following a Turkish airstrike on Sept. 17, 2022. (Credit: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
A base in northeastern Syria used jointly by Kurdish forces and the US-led coalition was hit in a Turkish drone strike on Tuesday, majority-Kurdish forces and a war monitor said.
"A joint base north of Hasakeh used for planning and executing joint operations against the Islamic State group has been hit by a Turkish drone," a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami, told AFP, adding that two SDF fighters had been killed.
A Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported the joint base had come under attack but was not immediately in a position to say whether coalition forces had been present at the time.
"A joint base north of Hasakeh used for planning and executing joint operations against the Islamic State group has been hit by a Turkish drone," a spokesman for the Kurdish-led...