20 members of the Kurdish security forces were killed as a result of a Turkish bombing that targeted their center in northeastern Syria after midnight on Sunday - Monday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Turkey intensified its cross-border air strikes against Kurdish targets in northeastern Syria and northern Iraq in response to an attack in Ankara that led to the injury of two policemen on Sunday 10/01. A branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which Ankara and its Western allies classify as a "terrorist organization," claimed responsibility for the first attack targeting the Turkish capital since 2016.

About 20 people were killed on Sunday night - Monday, as a result of air strikes carried out by a Turkish Air Force warplane, which targeted a training center affiliated with the Internal Security Forces (Asayish), in Gujarat, in the Malikiyah countryside, in Al-Hasakah Governorate.

The Internal Security Forces announced at dawn on Monday, “A warplane belonging to the brutal Turkish occupation state targeted a center for our forces (...), which led to the martyrdom of a number of members of our forces and the injury of others,” without providing additional details.

Turkey launched strikes on Kurdistan Workers' Party positions in northern Iraq since Sunday, January 10, when two policemen were injured following the suicide attack in Ankara.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan later confirmed that the perpetrators of the attack had trained in Syria, pledging to respond.