Exasperation with Croatia’s failure to create an independent border-monitoring mechanism to investigate allegations of migrant rights abuses is growing – something which could harm the country’s bid to join the passport-free Schengen zone.

SOHR activists say that unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) today on the Al-Jafra field road in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour.

Turkish forces stationed at the research base in northern Aleppo countryside, shelled the village of Maranaz and the perimeter of Tel Rifa’at in areas held by Kurdish forces in Aleppo countryside.