Over a million people in drought-stricken northeast Syria have lost access to water and electricity as a result of Turkish airstrikes, which experts warn may be against international law.
According to data compiled by the news agency World Service, Turkey launched over 100 attacks on oil fields, gas facilities, and power plants in the Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) between October 2019 and January 2024.
In an area already suffering from a protracted civil war and four years of severe drought made worse by climate change, the attacks have added to the humanitarian situation.
Although there was already a shortage of water, attacks on the electrical infrastructure in October of last year cut out power to the primary water station in the area, in Alouk.
