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jakeXT

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Thu May 30, 2013, 12:42 PM May 2013

Turkey returns fire after troops shot at from Syria

Source: Reuters

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish troops fired into Syria after one of its armoured vehicles patrolling the border came under fire from unidentified gunmen, the Turkish military said on Thursday.

The troops returned fire after three to five gunmen shot between 15 and 20 rounds at the vehicle patrolling a stretch of the shared border in Turkey's southern Hatay province on Wednesday afternoon, it said. There were no Turkish troop casualties.


Read more: http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINDEE94T0CQ20130530?irpc=932

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Turkey returns fire after troops shot at from Syria (Original Post) jakeXT May 2013 OP
The question is: where the shot fired by the Syrian army question everything May 2013 #1

question everything

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1. The question is: where the shot fired by the Syrian army
Thu May 30, 2013, 01:49 PM
May 2013

or by one of the rebel groups? Apparently there are at least four of them.

Similarly, there are reports of shots fired at Lebanon, but never mentioned by whom.

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