A drone attack on Thursday, October 5 targeted a Syrian military academy, resulting in the loss of 112 lives, as reported by a war monitoring organization. State media attributed the attack to “terrorist organizations” and it occurred in the government-controlled city of Homs.
A drone strike Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed 112 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming “terrorist organizations” for the attack in government-held Homs.
Separately, in the war-torn country’s Kurdish-held northeast, Turkish strikes on military and infrastructure targets killed at least nine people, according to Kurdish forces, after Ankara had threatened raids in retaliation for a bomb attack.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor with a vast network of sources on the ground, reported the number of casualties in the attack.
On Wednesday, Ankara warned of more intense cross-border air raids, after concluding that militants who staged a weekend attack in the Turkish capital came from Syria.
Since Sunday’s Ankara attack, which wounded two Turkish security officers and was claimed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Ankara has launched strikes on the Kurdish group’s positions in northern Iraq.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had warned of reprisals against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria in the aftermath of Sunday’s attack outside the interior ministry in Ankara
Khalil Wakim, with AFP
