Turkey fighter jet downs Syrian warplane over Idlib
A group of migrants walks towards Turkish-Greek border crossings from the city centre of Edirne, Turkey. The Syrian conflict has killed more than 380,000 people since it began in 2011 and displaced millions. – EPA pic, March 3, 2020.
A TURKISH fighter jet downed a Syrian regime warplane over the northwestern Idlib province today, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said, in the third such downing in three days. Turkey on Sunday confirmed it had launched a military operation against Russia-backed regime forces in the border region, where Ankara supports some rebel groups.
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