A Russian team visiting Ankara to discuss the Syrian government offensive in the northwestern Idlib region has left, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Tuesday, with no apparent agreement on how to halt clashes that killed 13 Turkish soldiers in a week.
The Russians arrived in Ankara on Saturday, days after a Syrian government attack in Idlib killed eight Turkish soldiers. Ankara then hit Syrian targets in one of the most serious clashes between them in nearly nine years of war in Syria.
On Monday, as Turkish and Russian officials held talks in Ankara, a second attack on Turkish troops in Idlib's Taftanaz area killed five Turkish soldiers after Ankara's deployment of thousands of troops to stem the Syrian offensive.