SYRIA: Syrian border town scarred by fierce fighting

Record ID: 281422

  • Title: SYRIA: Syrian border town scarred by fierce fighting
  • Date: 6th October 2012
  • Summary: CAR DRIVING WITH A DAMAGED WINDSHIELD MAN DRIVING MOTORCYCLE FSA SOLDIER HOLDING SYRIAN OPPOSITION FLAG FSA SOLDIERS PATROLLING ON STREET
  • Embargoed: 21st October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA4FDB1Z14F1A6W90JAXQH22ZKV
  • Story Text: Syria's border town of Tel Abyad bore the scars of recent violence on Friday (October 5).
    Turkey attacked the town for two days in response to a mortar fired from Syria that killed five people on Wednesday (October 3).
    Inside the town, Free Syrian Army soldiers patrolled the streets and the damage to homes was evident.
    Locals, including children, could still be seen on the streets.
    On the southern edge of Akcakale, Tel Abyad is just a few miles (kilometres) across the frontier.
    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three Syrian soldiers were killed by Turkish shelling of a military post nearby.
    The United Nations Security Council condemned the Syrian mortar attack on Thursday (October 4) and demanded "such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated."
    Consensus within the council on anything related to Syria is unusual and it has been deadlocked on the issue of the country's 19-month-long conflict for more than a year, with Russia and China rejecting calls to sanction the Damascus government.
    Syria wrote to the council offering condolences for the deaths of the Turkish civilians and calling for restraint and rationality.
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