New Turkish anti-Syrian operation as Damascus closes Idlib airspace

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Amid conflicting reports over a plane shot down over Idlib in northwest Syria, Ankara launched a new operation Sunday against Syrian forces, after losing 34 troops. Turkish claimed to have shot down a Syrian “regime plane,” while the Syrians said it was a “Turkish regime drone” and thereupon closed the airspace over Idlib province. The Turkish defense minister Hulusi Akar claimed that Ankara’s forces had killed some 2,200 Syrian troops and destroyed masses of equipment. “We have no intention of clashing with Russia,” he said, only to “stop Syrian regime massacres and migration.”

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