Turkish drone strikes have killed 26 Syrian soldiers in northwestern Syria Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor says.
Earlier in the day, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened reprisals for the killing of dozens of Turkish troops in Syria on Thursday.
“Twenty-six members of the Syrian army were killed when Turkish drones targeted positions of the regime forces in the Idlib and Aleppo countryside,” the Britain-based Observatory says.
The apparent retaliation comes after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by Syrian regime forces on Thursday. A 34th soldier later died from his injuries.