Missiles and rockets struck gasoline tankers in northern Syria close to the Turkish border, inflicting casualties, Turkey’s protection ministry and native rescue employees stated.
The gasoline tankers have been parked alongside primitive oil refineries between the cities of Al-Bab and Jarablus, the identical space which was hit by rockets earlier this month.
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Native rescue employees stated two folks have been wounded late on Sunday within the strikes, which the Turkish protection ministry stated have been attributable to missiles and rockets fired from a army base in a Syrian government-controlled a part of Aleppo province.
“They focused civilian residential areas and parking areas of gasoline tankers,” it stated. “There are civilian casualties.”
Missile strikes in the identical area 10 days in the past killed one particular person and wounded a minimum of eleven others, Turkish state media and a supply from the Turkish-backed faction that controls the area stated.
Turkey has backed fighters who sought to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, however the president, with Russian and Iranian assist, has pushed again the insurgents to a pocket in northwest Syria and different Turkish-controlled border areas.
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