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Turkey drone strikes ‘eliminate 19 Syrian soldiers’

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Mar 2, 2020
Turkey drone strikes ‘eliminate 19 Syrian soldiers’

Mourners carry the coffin of a Turkish soldier Halil Cankaya killed in an air strike in Syria's Idlib Image copyright
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The death of a minimum of 33 Turkish soldiers in Idlib last week inflamed tensions.

Turkey also shot down two Syrian fighter jets on Sunday.

Russia, a crucial backer of the Syrian federal government, has actually warned it can not guarantee the safety of Turkish aircraft in Syrian airspace.

Turkey, which backs rebels in Idlib, said it had also targeted Syrian air defence systems and dozens of tanks.

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Turkey claims 2,212 members of the Syrian forces have been “neut

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