At least eight people were killed today by Turkish drone fire in the Kurdish-controlled area of ​​northeastern Syria, a war monitor and a local security source said, following Ankara’s threats against Kurdish military installations in Syria and Iraq.

A Turkish Defense Ministry official said today that a ground operation in Syria is one of the options being considered by Turkey.

Two people were killed in a strike on a car near a military installation and six others were killed in a later strike on a military outpost near the town of Amuda, the security source told Reuters.

Turkey announced yesterday, Wednesday, that all Kurdish militant installations in Syria and Iraq are legitimate targets, after it concluded that the two perpetrators of the bombing, which took place last Sunday in front of government buildings in Ankara, had come from Syria.

“Our only goal is to eliminate the terrorist organizations that pose a threat to Turkey. A ground operation is one of the options to eliminate this threat, but it is not the only option for us,” a Turkish Defense Ministry official said today.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, the US-backed force dominated by the Syrian Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which has spearheaded the campaign against the Islamic State group, has denied the bombers passed through from the territories it controls.

The head of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, said yesterday, Wednesday, in a post on the social networking platform X, that Turkey is looking for “pretexts” to continue its attacks in areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces.

Aladdin al-Ali, an aid worker who runs a camp for displaced people in northeastern Syria, said aid groups “suspended their work and left” after a strike near the camp.