Turkey resumed direct bombing of civilian living areas in North and East Syria on Sunday, after carrying out several air strikes against Kurdish forces in the region following fierce clashes between Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 12 January.
According to reports from local Hawar news agency (ANHA) on Sunday, Turkish forces bombed a Global Coalition base in Kobani (Kobanê).
A Turkish drone struck an electricity power station in Kobani twice. Authorities in North and East Syria confirmed that the main power plant supplying electricity to the city and to 300 villages had become inoperative as a result of the attacks.
The Lafarge company cement plant, temporarily closed after previous attacks against Kobani by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014, and later used by the anti-ISIS coalition forces, was also bombed three times consecutively.
Grain silos and a private house in Al-Hasakah were targeted. Two children and their mother were wounded during the attack. The house was damaged beyond habitation.
The Turkish forces further targeted a position loyal to the Damascus government in the Shera district of Afrin Canton, three times consecutively.
A drone had targeted a power station and a checkpoint of the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (or Asayish, the police force in the Kurdish-led autonomous region) in the town of Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, on Sunday morning.
