On the night between Sunday, the 16th, and Monday, the 17th, March 2025, 10 civilian members of one family, including seven children, were killed and up to two were injured by an alleged Turkish airstrike and/or drone attack. According to reports by Hawar News and SOHR, the massacre occurred on a farm between the villages of Qamji and Barkh Botan, south of Kobani in the Aleppo governorate of Syria.

The exact date and time of the incident are contested. According to the Facebook account of Kobani.Al Hadath, the family members were killed while their home was attacked in the late hours of Sunday night. However, ANF news claimed that the family’s house was attacked at 12:40 a.m. on Monday, while Arta.fm reported that the deadly attack happened on Monday morning. Multiple sources emphasized that the family members used to work in the agricultural sphere.

While most sources claimed that nine family members, including seven children, were killed, the SOHR reported the death of ten family members, including eight children.

The Syrian Democratic Forces issued a statement documenting the names of the victims killed in the current incident, indicating their ages as well: 15-year-old Ahin Othman Abdo, 14-year-old Dijla Othman Abdo, 13-year-old Delofan Othman Abdo, six-year-old Yasser Othman Abdo, two-year-old Fawaz Othman Abdo, four-year-old Saliha Othman Abdo, eight-month-old Avista Othman Abdo, 42-year-old Othman Barkal Abdo (Father), and 39-year-old Ghazala Othman Abdo (Mother). The eldest daughter, an 18-year-old woman named Ronida Othman Abdo, and nine-year-old Narin Othman Abdo were injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.

A video shared by Ahmed Abu Yousef on Facebook shows an injured child, Narin, on a hospital bed, with a bandaged head and both arms. A woman asks if she is feeling pain, and the girl answers, “Yes.”

On March 18, the Facebook account Kobani.Al Hadath reported that Ronida succumbed to her injuries. Her image, where she is seen as a young woman with long reddish brown hair, wearing a white dress and a black jacket, was attached to the post. She was showing a victory sign. Narin Othman Abdo was reportedly the only surviving child in the family.

The Aleppo Governorate issued a statement condemning the massacre and highlighting it as a “flagrant violation of human rights”. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also spoke against it and called for the Turkish government to “immediately halt the killing of Syrian civilians”. Both SOHR and Hawarnews posted various graphic pictures of the state in which the dead victims were found. The sources emphasized that the limbs of the victims were torn. The Facebook page of Kabani AL Hadath also made and published a poster that depicts the destruction in Kobani and children killed in the various attacks reportedly conducted by the Turkish Army.

According to Roj News, the bombing has caused a wave of shock and grief in the village and the surrounding area, as circulated images and footage show the extensive damage to the targeted house.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Turkish military.

According to Al Khabour news, the Turkish military denied the media reports that a Turkish drone targeted a village in northeastern Syria, stressing that these claims are baseless. A statement from the Counter-Disinformation Center of the Turkish Communications Directorate read: “The claims circulated by some media outlets regarding a Turkish armed drone carrying out a night attack on a village in northeastern Syria, killing a father, mother, and seven children, are incorrect.”