Kurdish-Iranian Fighter Killed in Turkish Strike on Eastern Syria

A Turkey-backed Syrian fighter is pictured at a military position on the outskirts of the town of Kuljibrin, in Syria's northern Aleppo governorate, on August 8, 2022. (AFP)
A Turkey-backed Syrian fighter is pictured at a military position on the outskirts of the town of Kuljibrin, in Syria's northern Aleppo governorate, on August 8, 2022. (AFP)
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Kurdish-Iranian Fighter Killed in Turkish Strike on Eastern Syria

A Turkey-backed Syrian fighter is pictured at a military position on the outskirts of the town of Kuljibrin, in Syria's northern Aleppo governorate, on August 8, 2022. (AFP)
A Turkey-backed Syrian fighter is pictured at a military position on the outskirts of the town of Kuljibrin, in Syria's northern Aleppo governorate, on August 8, 2022. (AFP)

Turkish forced killed a senior commander of the anti-Iran Kurdistan Free Life Party in a drone strike in Syria’s northeaster Qamishli province.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified the commander as an Iranian, who died of his wounds four day after the strike.

The attack targeted his vehicle in the industrial zone in Qamishli city.

The rights monitor confirmed that the commander was the intended target. He was followed from Syria's Amuda all the way to Qamishli where the strike was carried out.

Reports said Turkish and Iranian intelligence coordinated the attack.

Four other people were killed in the operation including three civilians that included two children. Another member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party was also killed in the strike.

The Kurdish autonomous administration in northeastern Syria confirmed the killing of the Kurdish-Iranian commander, identified as Youssef Mahmoud Rabbani.

It revealed that the attack had taken place on August 7.

It said Rabbani was in the area to hold meetings with people to bridge divides between them.

The Kurdistan Free Life Party was formed in 2004 as an extension of the Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Its members fight alongside the PKK and Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria that control large parts of the country’s northeast since 2013.

The autonomous authority rarely declares the death of non-Syrian military members of the YPG or Syrian Democratic Forces.



One Killed in Israeli Drone Strike in South Lebanon

Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
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One Killed in Israeli Drone Strike in South Lebanon

Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Lebanese security forces set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Baawerta (Baaouerta), near the coastal town of Damour, about 20 kilometres south of Beirut, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

An Israeli drone strike on a Lebanese border town on Sunday killed one person, Lebanon's health ministry said.

The ministry reported in a statement "one martyr" from "the drone strike launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Halta,” in southern Lebanon.

Local media said the man was killed while working on his chicken farm.

Israel has continued to carry out regular strikes in Lebanon despite the November truce that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war.

A pair of Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed a leader of Jamaa Islamiya in Baawerta, on the coast south of Beirut, and one person who Israel said was a local Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon's Tyre district.