Iran Press/Middle East: Ankara has claimed that four Turkish soldiers were killed and another nine were injured after they came under heavy shelling in the terrorist-held province of Idlib while blaming Syrian Army forces for the attack.
The ministry said that the Turkish forces retaliated by destroying unspecified targets in the region.
The incident comes shortly after a large Turkish military convoy – consisting of some 50 armored vehicles, trucks carrying tanks, and armored personnel carriers – was reported to have entered Idlib province through Kafr Loosen crossing.
Months after its military offensive in Syria which was criticized by the international community, a large Turkish military convoy entered Syrian territory. The three Turkish military convoys consisting of tanks, armored vehicles, troop carriers, and military and logistic equipment headed towards Idlib and Aleppo.
It is said that Turkish military equipment has been lost or damaged in the clashes.
Located in northwestern Syria, Idlib province is the stronghold of the opposition, anti-government armed groups and various terrorist groups since the outbreak of the civil war.
On 26 January, the Syrian Army started an offensive in the west of Aleppo over the daily shelling of the city's residential areas by terrorists and militants. Three days later, the Syrian armed forces announced that they had liberated the strategically important city of Maarat al-Numan, which had been under the control of militants and terrorists since 2012. Located at a junction of the Hama-Aleppo highway, the city used to be a terrorist stronghold and a transit point along supply routes in the south of Idlib Province.
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