QAMISHLI, Syria (Dispatches) – The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out five airstrikes on warehouses and terrorist training camps in the Syrian province of Idlib.
“The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out five airstrikes on warehouses and terrorist training camps in Idlib province,” deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit said.
He added that as a result of a strike by an unmanned aerial vehicle launched by militants from the vicinity of the village of Halluba in Latakia province on the positions of Syrian troops in the Sheikh Mohammed area, one Syrian soldier was killed and two more were injured.
The deputy chief of the center added they recorded several violations of deconfliction protocols by the pro-American coalition.
“In the al-Tanf area, five violations were recorded per day by a pair of Rafale fighters, an MQ-1C multi-role unmanned aerial vehicle and two modular reconnaissance and attack unmanned aerial vehicles MQ-9 of the coalition,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Meanwhile, a Turkish airstrike on Monday killed 20 Kurdish militants and wounded dozens in Kurdish-held northeast Syria, a war monitor said.
Turkey has been bombing sites in the area since Thursday, targeting Kurdish militants.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor, said that 20 had been killed and around 50 wounded after a Turkish war plane targeted a training center belonging on the outskirts of al-Malikiyah.
The Kurdish force acknowledged the strike, saying that “a number of our forces were killed and others wounded.”
AFP correspondents said that authorities in the area have called for blood donations, while witnesses said that hospitals were full of casualties.
Amid the chaos of the long-running conflict in Syria, Kurds have carved out a semi-autonomous area in the country’s northeast.
Turkey’s defense ministry said on Friday that it had launched the new wave of air strikes in retaliation for an attack in Ankara earlier this month that wounded two security personnel.
A branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — listed as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies — claimed responsibility for the first bombing to hit the Turkish capital since 2016.
Turkey launched strikes on PKK positions in northern Iraq hours after the October 1 attack, with foreign minister Hakan Fidan saying days later that the assailants “came from Syria and were trained there.”
Turkey views the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) that dominate the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led so-called Syrian Democratic Forces as an offshoot of the PKK.
The SDF, the Kurds’ de facto army in the northeast, denied that those behind the Ankara attack had passed through the area.