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Fresh Turkey strikes in Syria kill 10 Kurdish militants: Ankara

Turkish troops have killed 10 Kurdish militants in a cross-border escalation ongoing since the weekend, according to the Turkish Defense Ministry.
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ANKARA — Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Monday that his country’s troops targeted several Kurdish positions in northern Syria, killing 10 militants in a major cross-border escalation.

Akar said Turkey's armed forces were responding to shelling and rocket attacks by Syrian Kurdish groups that wounded four Turkish soldiers over the weekend. Turkish soldiers were taken to Turkey for treatment. “All known terrorist targets have been under fire. We have four wounded,” he said.

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