Two were killed in a strike on a car near a military facility and another six were killed in a later strike on a military post near the town of Amuda, the security source told Reuters.

Turkey said yesterday that all Kurdish militant facilities in Syria and Iraq are valid targets after it concluded that two attackers who detonated a bomb in front of government buildings in Ankara last weekend had come from Syria.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US-backed force dominated by the Kurdish YPG, and which spearheaded a years-long campaign against the Islamic State group, has denied the bombers came through territory it controls.

SDF head Mazloum Abdi said yesterday in a post on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that Turkey was looking for “pretexts” to carry on attacking SDF-held areas.

Aladdin al-Ali, an aid worker running a camp for displaced people in northeast Syria, said relief organisations “suspended their work and left” following a strike near the camp.

Ankara has frequently carried out air strikes in northern Iraq against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militia, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union, and the US.

It has also carried out several cross-border incursions into Syria targeting the YPG, which it views as a terrorist group affiliated with the PKK.