Turkish and Turkey-backed forces targeted Kurdish positions in northern Iraq and Syria, even as the United Nations and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a global truce.
Turkey has pressed on with military campaigns against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria despite the novel coronavirus compounding the troubles of local populations in both conflict-torn countries.
The following day, however, Turkish forces again reportedly attacked across the border, this time in northern Syria. The jihadi group's lighting gains across the region prompted interventions from various international forces, including Iran, Russia and a U.S.-led coalition. With ISIS largely defeated, war-torn Iraq and Syria face a new, rapidly-spreading foe: COVID-19.The novel coronavirus that has infected more than 2.2 million across the globe poses major challenges for even the world's most developed health care systems and has put those in Iraq and Syria at especially dire risk.
This combination of pictures created on April 15 shows medical professionals at the"building of life" make-shift health centre, built in 15 days to treat COVID-19 coronavirus cases by the Abbas shrine authorities in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala, posing for a picture on April 13.
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