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Syria: Idlib bomb blast – Two Turkish soldiers killed

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were injured in a roadside bomb blast in the northwestern province of Idlib on Friday. Syria, said a non-governmental organization.

The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a Turkish military vehicle near Marat Misrin, in the northern part of the country. Idlib, clarified the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The attack was carried out after members of a guerrilla organization backed by Turkey They arrested a fighter of a rival organization, added the NGO, based in the United Kingdom and based on a wide network of sources in the war-torn country.

At least six Turkish soldiers have been killed in the past 35 days in northern Syria.

Since 2018, the Turkish Armed Forces and adjoining guerrillas have been occupying areas in the northern part of Aleppo as part of a large-scale operation in Ankara against Kurdish separatist fighters in Syria. Turkey is a protective force of various rebel organizations in Aleppo and Idlib.

The extremely complex war in Syria, which erupted in 2011 sparking the crackdown on democratization protests, has claimed the lives of some half a million people and turned millions more into internally displaced persons or refugees.

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