Turkish shelling and air strikes killed at least 40 Syrians on Sunday, a monitor said, in the first significant civilian casualties in Turkey's intensifying campaign in northern Syria.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said the army had killed 25 Kurdish "terrorists" in air strikes as part of its unprecedented operation inside Syria.
The bombardments came after Ankara suffered its first military fatality since it launched the two-pronged offensive against the Islamic State group and Syrian Kurdish militia inside Syria on Wednesday.
At least 20 civilians were killed and 50 wounded in Turkish artillery fire and air strikes on the village of Jeb el-Kussa early on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Another 20 were killed and 25 wounded, many seriously, in Turkish air strikes near the town of Al-Amarneh, it said...
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28/8/16
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Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said the army had killed 25 Kurdish "terrorists" in air strikes as part of its unprecedented operation inside Syria.
The bombardments came after Ankara suffered its first military fatality since it launched the two-pronged offensive against the Islamic State group and Syrian Kurdish militia inside Syria on Wednesday.
At least 20 civilians were killed and 50 wounded in Turkish artillery fire and air strikes on the village of Jeb el-Kussa early on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Another 20 were killed and 25 wounded, many seriously, in Turkish air strikes near the town of Al-Amarneh, it said...
[i24news - AFP]
28/8/16
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A group monitoring the Syrian war said Turkish air strikes had killed a total of 35 in northern Syria on Sunday, a day after Turkey suffered its first fatality during fighting with Kurdish militia for control of the Syria border region...
ReplyDeleteThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 15 civilians were killed and 20 more were wounded in an air raid targeting a farm near the village of al-Amarna, which was captured by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels from Kurdish-allied militia on Sunday.
In a separate attack, the Observatory had said at least 20 people were killed and 50 more wounded in Turkish air strikes on the village of Jub al-Kousa, also within an area held by the Kurdish-allied militia.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said on Saturday that one Turkish soldier was killed and three more wounded in a rocket attack by Kurdish militia on two tanks taking part in a cross-border offensive....france24.com