A warfare monitor mentioned a senior commander from the safety forces in northeast Syria’s semi-autonomous Kurdish-led administration was killed on Tuesday in a blast close to a jail in Hasakeh province.
“A commander within the Kurdish safety forces was killed and one other individual was wounded” in an explosion close to the jail in Umm Farsan on the outskirts of town of Qamishli “similtaneously a Turkish drone was flying within the space”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned.
The commander within the Asayish safety forces had performed “a distinguished function in main army operations in opposition to the Islamic State group in Raqa province”, a former bastion of the jihadists in Syria, mentioned the Britain-based Observatory.
A neighborhood Kurdish information company reported “the sound of an explosion… ensuing from the concentrating on of a automobile” within the space.
The incident got here a day after Syria’s Kurdish authorities in Hasakeh province launched 50 Syrian prisoners accused of belonging to the IS as a part of a normal amnesty deal, an official had instructed AFP.
The Kurds have established a semi-autonomous administration spanning swathes of the north and northeast.
The US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces spearheaded the battle that dislodged Islamic State group jihadists from their final scraps of Syrian territory in 2019.
Turkey sees the Kurdish Folks’s Safety Models (YPG), which dominate the SDF, as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Employees’ Get together (PKK), which it considers a “terrorist” group.
The Turkish military, which has troops and proxies in northern Syria, recurrently carries out strikes in Kurdish-held areas.
Turkey controls two massive strips of territory alongside the border after expelling Kurdish forces in successive campaigns.
