Turkey carried out airstrikes in northern Syria near the border on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, including Syrian government soldiers, said opposition war monitors and Kurds. people media said.
The attack occurred just west of the northern town of Kobani, amid heightened tensions between US-backed Kurdish fighters and Turkish-backed opposition militants in northern Syria. did.
Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official who said Turkish airstrikes had killed three of his soldiers and injured six others. Officials said the Syrian army retaliated by targeting Turkish military positions and those of Turkish-backed opposition fighters.
The Syrian Observatory, a UK-based opposition war-monitoring agency, said Turkish air strikes had killed 11 people, adding that it was not immediately clear if they were all Syrian soldiers. rice field. Eight people were also injured.
Hawar News, a news agency in Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, reported that 16 Syrian soldiers were killed, while another Kurdish news agency, the North Press Agency, said 22 He said 1,000 soldiers had died.
Discrepancies in casualty figures in the immediate aftermath of the attacks are not uncommon in Syria.
Turkey's defense ministry said Tuesday that 13 people were killed after Turkish artillery retaliated against a deadly attack on a Turkish border post near the town of Birezik in the border province of Şanlıurfa. of suspected Kurdish militants dead. The ministry said operations in the area are continuing.
Provincial Governor Salif Ayhan told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency that one soldier was killed in an attack on a border crossing in Chichekaran early Tuesday morning and four others of his own. said he was injured.
In a separate announcement on Twitter, the Ministry of Defense said five other of his Kurdish militants were also killed by the Turkish artillery system. They are preparing an attack on Turkish-held areas of northern Syria and are said to have set "harassment fire" on the area.
has launched three major cross-border operations and already controls several territories in the north.
