Turkey and Syrian regime tensions escalate as attack on Turkish forces kill at least 5 soldiers and one contractor
A Syrian man at a destroyed house after regime air strikes on the northern town of Sarmeen in Idlib province, Syria on February 2, 2020. DPA
Russia, responding on Monday, said the Turkish military came under fire from Syrian forces because Moscow had not been warned about Turkey's operations in Syria's northwest Idlib region, the Tass news agency cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying. Erdogan said Turkey was shelling positions in Idlib identified by its National Intelligence Organisation with howitzers and F-16 fighter jets.Air strikes kill 14 civilians
Rescue workers pulled the bodies of a nine-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy from the debris of a two-storey building, an AFP correspondent in the town said.Abu Fida said he and his family had fled bombardment on Sarmeen on Thursday, with just the clothes on their back. The Britain-based monitor says it relies on sources inside Syria, and determines who carries out air strikes according to flight patterns, as well as the aircraft and ammunition involved.
Last week regime forces retook from rebels the key town of Maarat al Numan along the highway and are now just several kilometres from the abandoned town of Saraqeb.On Monday, at least nine civilians were killed in an air strike in the village of Kafr Naha, in the western countryside of the northern province of Aleppo. Similar raids in Aleppo a day earlier had killed 14 civilians, according to the Observatory.
A Turkish-Russian deal in 2018 saw Turkish troops deploy at observation posts around Idlib, but the agreement has failed to stem repeated regime military offensives.
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