“A Turkish attack on military positions in the Aleppo rif leaves several dead and injured”headlines the Syrian daily Al-Watan, unofficial mouthpiece of Bashar El-Assad’s regime, in its edition of Wednesday August 17. A military source quoted by the newspaper explains that these bombings took place the day before in this northern region, bordering Turkey, in the city of Kobané and its surroundings. According to a provisional report, they would have caused military deaths (three soldiers dead and three wounded) but also civilians (at least four dead and ten wounded).
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) indicates that these strikes killed 17 fighters in the locality of Jarqali, located west of Kobané, without being able to specify whether it was “regime forces” or of “Kurdish fighters who control the area”. These bombings, notes the pro-government English-language Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, took place a few hours after a