A Turkish drone strike on July 22 targeted three members of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ [8]) who were driving in a vehicle near the northeast Syrian town of Qamishli [9]. All three women were killed, and several passers-by injured by shrapnel. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR [10]) said that it was the second drone strike on territory of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration in North & East Syria (AANES) in the past 48 hours. The YPJ is the women's wing of the People's Protection Units (YPG [11]), the territorial defense force of the autonomous zone [12], in the region known to the Kurds as Rojava. Turkey has carried out repeated drone strikes [13] on targets within AANES territory this year, amid apparent preparations [9] for a new military incursion into the autonomous zone.
