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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey says Syrian forces hit observation tower in Idlib
2019-06-14
[Al Jazeera] Syrian government forces have attacked a Ottoman Turkish observation point in Syria's Idlib province, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...
's Defence Ministry has said, in what it assessed as a deliberate attack involving 35 mortar shells.

Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were slightly maimed in the attack, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday, and some equipment and facilities were damaged.

"The transportation and treatment of the maimed [soldiers] is ongoing," the statement said. The ministry added that Ankara has made representations to Moscow about the incident.

Under a deal with Russia, Turkey deployed forces in Idlib at a dozen positions around the rebel-controlled northwestern province, where it has set up observation towers to prevent escalations between the Syrian government forces and rebels.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Syria and ally Russia ramped up deadly air raids and artillery fire in the region in late April against Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate whose fighters dominate the area. Russia wants the group out of Idlib and disarmed, and keeps pressuring Turkey to make that happen.

Posted by:Fred

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