Turkish Hatay province Governor Rahmi Dogan said that 22 Turkish troops were killed in airstrikes blamed on the Syrian government against their positions in the country's northwestern province of Idlib.
Russia and Turkey's conflict over an insurgent-held province of northwestern Syria has witnessed a major escalation in hostilities recently, with new reports of Turkish military casualties incurred by airstrikes.
Talks between Moscow and Ankara have failed to enforce a ceasefire between their respective allies in Syria's nearly-nine-year civil war that has left rebels and jihadis cornered in the Idlib province by Russia-backed government forces and their allies. Turkey, which backs some opposition forces, has deployed troops and sent support to partnered Syrian fighters but its forces have been repeatedly hit in raids.
Smoke billows over the town of Saraqib in the eastern part of the Idlib province in northwestern Syria, following bombardment by Syrian government forces, February 27. Syrian rebels reentered the key northwestern crossroads town of Saraqib lost to government forces earlier this month but fierce fighting raged on in its outskirts today.Turkey was an early supporter of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose embattled forces would go on to receive backing from Iran and Russia.
"The terrorists are using shoulder-launched U.S.-made missiles with Turkish support to target Syrian and Russian warplanes while the Turkish regime provides support to terrorists with artillery and shoulder-fired missiles in battles on the Saraqib axis," the official Syrian Arab News Agency cited a military source as saying Thursday.
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