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Five Turkish troops killed in attack on tank in Syria operation: army


Saturday, 3 February, 2018 , 17:18

Ankara, Feb 3, 2018 (AFP) — Five Turkish troops were killed on Saturday by an attack on a tank during Turkey's cross-border operation against Kurdish militia in Syria, the army said in a statement.

All five soldiers were in the tank when it was hit in the northeast of the Afrin region of northern Syria where Turkey is waging a campaign against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia seen by Ankara as a terror group, the army said.