Turkey has intensified a campaign of airstrikes against Kurdish groups in northern Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the deaths of 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraq over the weekend.
The Turkish defense ministry said in a statement Monday that it had killed at least 26 militants.
In Qamishili, northeast Syria, at least six civilians were killed in Turkish airstrikes Monday, according to a local hospital official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, and to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
Turkey has carried out 124 strikes in northeast Syria so far in 2023, killing 92 people.
Friday, Turkish officials said militants affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that has waged an insurgency against Turkey since the 1980s, attempted to infiltrate a Turkish base in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, and six Turkish soldiers were killed in the ensuing firefight.
The following day, six more Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants.
In response, Ankara launched strikes on dozens of sites it said were associated with the PKK.
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