In Syria hospital, Kurdish fighters determined despite burns

HASAKEH: In a hospital in northeastern  Syria , a nurse tends to a Kurdish fighter recovering from burns to his face sustained in battle against advancing Turkish troops.
“My dimples used to be like yours, but I lost one,” Suleiman Qahraman tells the nurse, smiling timidly to avoid hurting his scorched face too much.
“Now I have just one left,” the 19-year-old says, referring to the one side of his face that has survived unscathed, making his fellow fighters laugh.
He and his fellow burns patients were all wounded in the defence against Turkish soldiers and their Syrian proxies who launched a cross-border offensive on October 9.
The invasion has killed more than 250 fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and wounded many more, according to Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Qahraman says he was sleeping when his position near the border town of Ras al-Ain was hit in a bombardment by pro-Turkish forces.