"Air strikes by regime aircraft on Idlib city and the towns of Saraqeb and Kafr Awid," all controlled by rebel forces, killed 48 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
It also said dozens of people were maimed, and some were in a critical condition, after
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
hit the area.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind:
I can do this! I can do this!Then the trap sprung...
Turkish armed forces shot down a Syrian helicopter that violated
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's airspace in the south of the country, the Turkish defence minister said.
"A Syrian helicopter was downed that violated the border for a period of five minutes within a seven mile limit," Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz was quoted as saying by the Dogan news agency.
Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
had earlier indicated the aircraft was a drone.
"Having rightly fulfilled their duty, I congratulate the armed forces and kiss the eyes of them all," Yilmaz said, using a traditional Turkish expression.
He did not give any further details on the helicopter.
NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member Turkey, an outspoken critic of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, has a 560-mile border with Syria and frequently scrambles jets to its frontier worried about territorial violations.