Turkey Reinforcing Positions in Idlib

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Turkish army has sent several military convoys to its occupied territories in Idlib province after terrorists' Saturday chemical attacks on Aleppo and intensified tensions in Northern Syria.

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Date: 26 November 2018 - 19:16

Sources affiliated to the militants in Northern Syria reported on Monday that a military convoy of the Turkish army, consisting of logistical equipment and vehicles which carried prefabricated shelters, was transferred through Kafr Lousin passageway to the Ankara-occupied region in Sawame'e al-Sarman in Eastern Idlib.

They also said that hours after the terrorists' chemical attacks on residential neighborhoods in Aleppo and the Russian fighter jets' reciprocal airstrikes on militants' positions in the region, the Turkish army's military convoys entered Idlib, adding that Ankara seeks to strengthen its truce-monitoring points in the region, while it is not clear if this has been agreed to by Syria, Iran and Russia.

The Syrian and Russian air forces heavily pounded the terrorists' military positions in the demilitarized zone of Aleppo after terrorists launched a chlorine gas attack from the same region on residential areas in Aleppo.

The Arabic-language al-Watan daily reported that the Russian and Syrian fighter jets hit hard the terrorists' military positions after the latter conducted a chemical shelling of civilians in the demilitarized zone.

"The Syrian army attacked the military positions where the terrorists had fired chemically-loaded shells on civilians in Aleppo. The army inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists in its attacks," the Arabic-language Sputnik news agency quoted an unidentified Syrian source as saying.

Meantime, it was also reported that the Russian warplanes pounded the terrorists' positions just 1,500 meters from Turkey's observation posts in Hay al-Rashedin in Western Aleppo and also in Khan Touman region.

According to SANA news agency, at least 107 civilians were hospitalized after militants had fired shells at Aleppo containing toxic gases. Many cases of asphyxiation were reported

In a relevant development on Sunday, Syrian Foreign Ministry said that the Aleppo chlorine shelling was made possible because Western countries had been supplying weapons to militants so that they staged chemical attacks.

Damascus went on to call on the United Nations to take measures regarding the militants who attacked Aleppo and the states that were supporting them, Sputnik reported.

Syria's comments came after on Saturday, militants based North of Aleppo fired chlorine-loaded shells at the city's al-Khalidiye neighborhood. Militants also shelled the neighborhoods of al-Khalidiye and Al Zahraa as well as the Nile Street, causing at least 65 people to be delivered to hospitals over difficulties with breathing.

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