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| Subject: Appalling: Turkey, Syria Trade Deadly Strikes Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:33 pm | |
| Turkey and Syria traded attacks near their shared border in a spasm of direct, deadly violence that threatens to escalate the friction between two increasingly bitter neighbors — and more deeply entangle Syria's ally Russia.
On Monday, officials in Ankara announced that at least six Turkish soldiers were killed in an artillery attack launched by the Syrian regime in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib. Within hours, Turkey answered with an assault of its own, killing several dozen Syrians in a retaliatory strike on some 40 regime positions in the area, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an independent monitoring agency based in the U.K., placed the death toll at 13 Syrian soldiers.
"We are determined to continue our operations to ensure the safety of our country, our nation and our brothers in Idlib," Erdogan told reporters Monday, in comments reported by Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency.
"Those who test Turkey's determination with such vile attacks," he added, "will understand that they made a big mistake."
His remarks are a warning not just for the Syrian regime, but also for the Kremlin.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802221255/turkey-syria-trade-deadly-strikes-as-russia-watches-uneasily |
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