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Syria strongly condemns passage of Turkish resupply of alNusra at Khan Sheikhoun
2019-08-20
[SANA.SY] Syria strongly condemned the passage of Ottoman Turkish vehicles loaded with ammunition, weapons and material equipment through the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish borders and their entrance to Saraqeb City in their way to Khan Sheikhoun town to help the defeated Lions of Islam of "Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
", asserting that this acts affirms again the continued unlimited support provided by the Ottoman Turkish regime to terrorist groups.

An official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement to SANA that "Ottoman Turkish vehicles loaded with ammunition, weapons and material equipment passed through the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish borders on Monday morning and they entered Saraqeb City in their way to Khan Sheikhoun to help the defeated Lions of Islam of Jabhat al-Nusra which is on the lists of the Security Council as a terrorist organization, which affirms again the continued unlimited support provided by the Ottoman Turkish regime to the terrorist groups."

The source added "The Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemns this flagrant Ottoman Turkish violation and it holds the Ottoman Turkish Regime fully responsible for the consequences of this stark violation of the illusory sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic which constitutes an outrageous breach of the international law’s provisions."

"Syria affirms that this aggressive behavior by the Ottoman Turkish regime will not in any way affect the determination of the Syrian Arab Army to continue to hunt down the remnants of Lions of Islam in Khan Sheikhoun and other areas till liberating every inch of the Syrian territories from terrorism," the source concluded.

Related from the Jerusalem Post: Syrian air strikes hit Turkish convoy in Idlib, 16 casualties

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