A Turkish airstrike on a Syrian border post has claimed the lives of 11 people in the war-torn country’s Kurdish-majority north, with reports falling short of specifying whether the victims were affiliated with the Damascus government forces or Kurdish militants.

At least five people, including a woman, have been killed in a Turkish drone strike in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, as Ankara ramps up its cross-border offensives in the Arab country.