BEIRUT (AFP) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said 11 people including civilians were killed in attacks by a Kurdish-led force on positions of fighters in north Syria.
“A woman, her two children and a man were killed… in the bombing of a military position… used by factions for human smuggling operations,” the Britain-based monitor said.
It said seven fighters were also killed in that incident and in an operation by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that control swathes of northeast Syria.
SDF special forces infiltrated a militant group’s position and killed three fighters, said the monitor with a network of sources inside Syria.
The SDF also booby-trapped a military position as they withdrew, in an attack that killed another four fighters but also four civilians including a woman and her two children, the Observatory said.
On Sunday, 15 Syrian fighters were killed after the SDF infiltrated their territory, the monitor reported earlier. The SDF is a United States-backed force that spearheaded the fighting against the Islamic State group in its last Syria strongholds before its territorial defeat in 2019.
