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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 31, 2023.
THE US shot down a Turkish drone over Syria today after it came within 500 yards of its troops.
Turkey launched a series of bombing and drone raids on targets in the Kurdish-controlled north-east, “destroying caves, bunkers, shelters and warehouses,” according to its Defence Ministry.
It said it was targeting locations used by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Ankara last Sunday that wounded two policemen, and its ally the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
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