SYRIA: At least 19 Syria soldiers were killed in Turkish drone strikes in Syria’s Idlib province as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 19 killed in strikes on a military convoy in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and a base near Maaret al-Numan city.
The incident occurred in hours after Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes, in a rising nasty against the Damascus regime in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib.
Turkey confirmed the launch of a full military operation against Russian-backed Syrian forces after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed last week in an airstrike blamed by Damascus.
Tensions have increased between insurgent backer Turkey and the regime’s key ally Moscow, however, Ankara has insisted it does not want to clash directly with Russian forces.
Ankara has also under pressured Europe over the divergence by opening its border for migrants already in Turkey to cross into the continent.
The confrontation between Syrian forces and NATO-member Turkey has provoked worries over a wider clash and a migrant calamity in Europe.
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