BEIRUT, April 20. /TASS/. A Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle has carried out an attack on the positions of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the Syrian city of Qamishli in the northern part of the Al Hasakah province, Syria’s General Organization of Radio and Television reported on Wednesday.
According to the media outlet, the attack, which targeted the headquarters of Kurdish forces, caused casualties among Kurdish fighters.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces currently control most of the Al Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa provinces in eastern and northeastern Syria. Since 2015, the United States has set up nine military bases in the region. Turkey, in turn, has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2017, dubbed Euphrates Shield, Olive Branch and Peace Spring. As a result, Ankara created a security buffer zone between the cities of Azaz and Jarabulus north of Aleppo, occupied the city of Afrin and took control of border areas east of the Euphrates River. Damascus views US and Turkish military presence in the country as occupation.