Turkey and Syria traded deadly attacks near their shared border in a spasm of violence that threatens to escalate the friction between two increasingly bitter neighbors — and more deeply entangle Syria's ally, Russia.
A Turkish military convoy passes through the Syrian town of Dana, in Idlib province near the Turkish-Syrian border, on Sunday. It is there, in northwestern Syria, that friction between the country and neighboring Turkey has flared into direct violence.A Turkish military convoy passes through the Syrian town of Dana, in Idlib province near the Turkish-Syrian border, on Sunday.
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"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"Those who test Turkey's determination with such vile attacks," he added,"will understand that they made a big mistake.
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