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Airwars Assessment
On Sunday, 2 February 2025, an alleged Turkish airstrike and/or drone strike hit a house in the outskirts of the village of Sakiro in the eastern countryside of Ain Issa in the Raqqa governorate of Syria, killing a 15-year-old boy, identified as Salah Khalaf al-Salama.
While the incident was reported by numerous local sources, details of the attack remain scarce. Several outlets have shared a picture of the victim; the boy is shown wearing a purple-green shirt.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a suicide drone was used in the attack. Other sources claimed that the attack was carried out by Turkish aircraft.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Sakiro (صكيرو), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.428056, 39.073611. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.