Five Turkish soldiers were killed in northwestern Syria as fighting between Syrian government troops and Turkish forces flared
ANKARA/AMMAN - Syrian government forces killed five Turkish soldiers in northwestern Syria on Monday, Turkey’s defense ministry said, after Turkey deployed thousands of troops there to stem a Syrian government offensive.
“Their attacks against our posts have made an operation necessary,” Omer Celik, spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party, told reporters in Ankara. It has poured 5,000 troops and convoys of military vehicles across the border, carrying tanks, armored personnel carriers and radar equipment to bolster its existing military positions.
A Turkey-backed Syrian rebel commander said the insurgents had also launched a military operation near the town of Saraqeb, south of Taftanaz, with Turkish artillery support.As the conflict escalated in Idlib, Turkish and Russian officials met in Ankara for talks. The two countries back opposing sides in Syria, where Moscow’s military intervention in 2015 helped swing the war decisively in Assad’s favor.
“This is a war of attrition between Moscow and Ankara in which they are testing limits,” said Galip Dalay, a visiting scholar at Oxford University.
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