SHOTLIST:

MANBIJ, SYRIA (SEP. 11, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF DRONE SHOTS OF AL KHAFSA AND AL KAYYARIYA VILLAGES IN SOUTHERN MANBIJ

2. JOURNALISTS DRIVING IN AREA

3. HOUSES DAMAGED DURING ATTACKS (TWO SHOTS)

4. MAN POINTING AT SOMEWHERE IN DISTANCE WHILE SPEAKING (Arabic)

5. VARIOUS OF MORTAR FIRE IMPACT ON ASPHALT ROAD

6. NEIGHBORHOOD IN DISTANCE

7. VARIOUS OF CHILDREN RESTING AND PLAYING AROUND DESTROYED BUILDINGS

8. SYRIAN FLAG ON POLE

9. VARIOUS OF YOUNG SYRIANS WALKING NEXT TO MOTORBIKE / BLOOD-STAINED SHOE ON MOTORBIKE

10. MUHAMMED IDRIS, WHO LOST RELATIVES AND WAS INJURED IN ATTACK, SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

11. VILLAGERS CONDUCTING DAILY ROUTINES IN KAYYARIYA VILLAGE (TWO SHOTS)

12. ABBUD RIFAI ABBUD FROM KAYYARIYA VILLAGE SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

13. EMPTY ROADS OF KAYYARIYA VILLAGE (TWO SHOTS) MANBIJ, SYRIA - SEP. 11: Fresh assaults by the PKK/YPG and allied groups prompted residents of Manbij, Syria, to call on the state to provide protection on Thursday, Sep. 11.

The PKK/YPG terrorist organization, operating under the name SDF, targeted civilians in the southern al-Khafsa and Al-Kayyariya areas on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring two others from the same family.

Families grieving their losses stressed that they have nowhere to turn and appealed for basic security, while villagers in Kayyariya described how repeated mortar fire and drone activity have left them living in fear.

Locals accused PKK/YPG of targeting women, children, and the elderly, while fortifying villages with tunnels and barricades in coordination with remnants of the former regime, and likened its tactics to those of Daesh.

Residents urged both Syrian authorities and the international community to intervene, warning that escalating attacks have left them trapped under constant fire with no safe way out.

The escalation comes months after the signing of an agreement on March 10 between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Ferhat Abdi Sahin, a senior ringleader of the PKK/YPG terror group, to integrate civil and military institutions in northeastern Syria into the state administration, affirm the unity of Syrian territory and reject partition plans.

However, the organization has violated the agreement more than once.

The Syrian government has been making intensive efforts to control security in the country since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime on Dec. 8, 2024 after 24 years in power.