Regime Strikes Turkish Positions in Northern Syria

Regime forces struck on Monday positions of the Turkish army and allied Syrian factions in the northern Hasakah. (AFP file photo)
Regime forces struck on Monday positions of the Turkish army and allied Syrian factions in the northern Hasakah. (AFP file photo)
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Regime Strikes Turkish Positions in Northern Syria

Regime forces struck on Monday positions of the Turkish army and allied Syrian factions in the northern Hasakah. (AFP file photo)
Regime forces struck on Monday positions of the Turkish army and allied Syrian factions in the northern Hasakah. (AFP file photo)

Regime forces struck on Monday positions of the Turkish army and allied Syrian factions in the northern Hasakah countryside that falls within the areas of Ankara’s Operation Peace Spring.

The strike took place after the Turkish forces and Syrian factions attacked a Russian fighter helicopter that had flown over the village of al-Dardara in Hasakah. The aircraft, which was flying at low altitude, managed to avoid being hit.

The attack coincided with intense missile strikes carried out by the opposition factions deployed in areas where Turkey had carried out the Operation Peace Spring against Kurdish forces.

The regime forces consequently launched missile attacks against the positions of the Turkish army and loyalist factions in al-Qasimiyah and al-Dardara and other villages in the Tal Tamr countryside.

According to a senior military source, the command of the Russian forces ordered the regime forces to carry out the attack.

This incident is the first since Turkey launched its Operation Peace Spring in October 2019.

Commander of the Tal Tamr Military Council said the countryside has witnessed frequent attacks since mid-August.

Meanwhile, Russian forces have expanded their base in the vicinity of Qamishli Airport and began constructing an airstrip for warplanes and a coordination center in the old French barracks square.



WHO: Medicine Critically Low Due to Gaza Aid Blockade

Palestinians gather at a damaged building, at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Shejaia, in Gaza City, April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
Palestinians gather at a damaged building, at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Shejaia, in Gaza City, April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
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WHO: Medicine Critically Low Due to Gaza Aid Blockade

Palestinians gather at a damaged building, at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Shejaia, in Gaza City, April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
Palestinians gather at a damaged building, at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Shejaia, in Gaza City, April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

Medicine stocks are critically low due to the aid blockade in Gaza, making it hard to keep hospitals even partially operational, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

"We are critically low in our three warehouses, on antibiotics, IV fluids and blood bags," WHO official Rik Peeperkorn told reporters in Geneva via video link from Jerusalem.

The Israeli military on Friday issued an urgent warning to residents in several neighborhoods in northern Gaza, calling on them to evacuate immediately. Strikes earlier this week killed at least 23 people, health officials said, including eight women and eight children.

Since Israel ended an eight-week ceasefire last month, it said it will push further into Gaza until Hamas releases the hostages. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire collapsed, according to the United Nations.

Israel imposed a blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle. It has pledged to seize large parts of the Palestinian territory and establish a new security corridor through it.