Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder said during a press briefing that commanders assessed that on Thursday a Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flew "less than a half kilometer from US forces" based in Syria
According to Syria's state-run SANA news agency, citing a statement from the General Command of the Armed Forces, the academy was targeted by several explosive-laden drones just after the ceremony concluded on Thursday afternoon.
It was the latest attack since an Israeli airstrike hit the international airport in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria on August 28, damaging a runway and putting it out of service.
The attack came days after Russian and Syrian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on the last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib and parts of Aleppo killing several insurgents.
Rami Abdulrahman, director of SOHR, attributed the recent uptick in violence by IS in eastern Syria to its ability to recruit informants in government-held areas.
After spending days at a hospital in north Syria, Afraa was released and handed over to her paternal aunt and her husband, who adopted her and are raising her along with their five daughters and two sons.
4 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were killed and another wounded in a Turkish drone strike in Sharbazher district in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish region of Iraq
The rocket firings from Syria came after days of escalating violence on multiple fronts over tension in Jerusalem and an Israeli police raid on the city’s most sensitive holy site
