On Monday, January 26, 2026, a drone strike with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by the Turkish military or Syrian interim government forces, hit a residential home in Kharab Ashk in the Kobani countryside of Syria, killing at least five civilians, including four children, and injuring between five and seven others, including four children, according to monitoring groups and regional media.

Most of the victims were reported to be members of a single civilian family. Different sources provided varying identifications of those killed, although all of them, including SOHR, reported five casualties and seven injuries

Reported names of the victims included Fatima Othman, Jamila Ahmed Osman, Solaf Rasho Bozan Kadro, a child Jaafar Muhammad Sheikh Bozan, and the daughter of Muhammad Sheikh Bozan, while other reports identified the dead as Jamila Sheikh Nabi (53), Banafsh Sheikh Bozan (38), Fatima Haj Mahmoud (60), and two children, four-year-old Solin Sheikh Bozan and two-year-old Kaniwar Sheikh Bozan. According to ANHA correspondent, there were other civilian victims whose identities are not yet known, according to initial information.

The wounded included 34-year-old woman Sherihan Haj Mahmoud, 17-year-old girl Fatima Haj Mahmoud, five-year-old boy Masoud Sheikh Bozan, 25-year-old woman Nasreen Mustafa, and Muhammad Sheikh Bozan, with some reports indicating additional injured civilians, in particular, two children, whose identities were not immediately confirmed.

The strike occurred in the countryside of Ain al-Arab (Kobani), where local monitors described the incident as a devastating attack on a family home. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the drone, believed to be Turkish, struck the residence directly, killing and injuring those inside in what it described as a “massacre.” Survivors were transferred to nearby medical points with severe injuries.

Regional news agencies reported similar accounts, stating that heavy shelling and aerial attacks were carried out in the area at the time of the incident. Some sources attributed the attack to forces affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government, while others, described the drone as likely Turkish. Initial reporting indicated that most of the victims belonged to the same extended family.

At the time of reporting, no updated official casualty total had been released beyond the initial figures, and some victims remained unidentified.

Sources differed on responsibility. Those attributing a belligerent linked the strike to Turkish forces (SOHR) or to armed groups affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government (ANHA, ANF and other local media).