Turkey bombs Kurdish forces in northeast Syria

Turkish warplanes conducted a barrage of air strikes on Kurdish positions in northeast Syria early Tuesday, leaving several fighters dead, Kurdish forces and a monitor said.The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said the strikes hit their positions near the Syrian border town of Al-Malikiyah at 2:00 am Tuesday (2300 GMT Monday)."Turkish planes carried out a broad offensive on a YPG base that houses media and communication centres and some military installations," the YPG statement said.