The manager of Hasakeh’s electricity company, Saleh Idris, charged that the bombings left the substations in the towns of Qamishli and Amuda without service.

The company’s workers and technicians are waiting for the situation to stabilize so that they can have access to the facilities and assess the damage in order to begin repairs, he said.

The Al-Swedieh power plant, the only remaining source of electricity in Hasakeh, was destroyed, according to reports.

The governorate was left without power to run hospitals, bakeries and telecommunications centers, while the water plant in the Alouk area, which supplies drinking water to nearly one million people, stopped functioning due to lack of electricity.

On Thursday, a fighter plane from the United States forces illegally stationed in Syria shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle of Turkish origin, in the northeast of the country.

The incident comes amid escalating air strikes by the Turkish army against the self-styled Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-majority militia that receives support from Washington but considered terrorist by Ankara.

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