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Damascus confirms its army targeted by Turkish shelling, complains to UN<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Syrian government has confirmed that its army positions were targeted by Turkish shelling on Saturday, which also hit the positions of the Syrian Kurdish militias in the northern Aleppo province. Turkish shelling reportedly continued Sunday.<\/div>\n
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Syria\u2019s government has condemned Turkey for shelling Syrian territory, describing the act as direct support for \u201cterrorist\u201d groups, Syrian state media reported on Sunday, citing the letter to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Damascus sent the letter after Turkey shelled areas recently captured by a Kurdish-backed alliance north of Aleppo on Saturday. It demanded that the UN Security council \u201ctake responsibility for international peace and security by putting an end to the crimes committed by the Turkish regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn February 13, 2016, since the afternoon hours, Turkey\u2019s heavy artillery, located on Turkish territory, artillery shelled Syrian territory, targeting Syrian Kurdish positions and the positions of the Syrian Arab Army,\u201d SANA news agency reported after obtaining the letter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn addition, Turkish artillery bombarded the towns of Maraanaz, al-Malikiyah, Minagh, Ain Dakna and Bazi Bagh, which are home to the civilian population,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the complaint addressed to UN Secretary General and Un Security Council said.<\/p>\n

The letter added that 12 trucks mounted with heavy machine-guns and carrying around a hundred fighters entered Syrian territory from Turkey through the Bab al-Salam checkpoint on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the militants were Turkish Army servicemen and the rest \u2013 Turkish mercenaries,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0it said.<\/p>\n

The Turkish military carried out the artillery strikes in response to the military offensive being conducted by the Syrian Arab Army in the northern part of Aleppo province, the Syrian government stressed.<\/p>\n

The shelling is\u00a0\u201can attempt to increase the morale of armed terrorist groupings, who are being defeated,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the appeal to the UN added.<\/p>\n

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Damascus confirms its army targeted by Turkish shelling, complains to UN FILE PHOTO \u00a9 Stringer \/ Reuters The Syrian government has confirmed that its army positions were targeted by Turkish shelling on Saturday, which also hit the positions of the Syrian Kurdish militias in the northern Aleppo province. Turkish shelling reportedly continued Sunday. Syria\u2019s government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[189,8114,3383,776,818,822,9324,826,862],"class_list":["post-17782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-damascus","tag-rt-news","tag-shelling","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-un","tag-un-security-council","tag-united-nations","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17784,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions\/17784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}