Turkey said it hit back at Syrian government forces on Monday, after "intense" Syrian shelling killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syria's northern Idlib province. Eight Turkish military and civilian personnel and 13 Syrian soldiers were killed in a similar clash in the province last week. The opposition monitoring group the Syrian Observatory reported that six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven were wounded when Syrian government forces shelled the Taftanaz airbase in Idlib on Monday. The build up and the continued government advances sparked a rare clash on Feb. 3 between Turkish and Syrian soldiers that killed eight Turkish military personnel and 13 Syrian troops. A Turkish military convoy passes through the town of Binnish in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Monday.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2020 17:47 UTC