Turkish National Defense Ministry on Thursday said it neutralized scores of Bashar al-Assad regime troops, military vehicles, and weapons in the past 24 hours as part of its recent military operation in northern Syria.
In an official statement, the ministry said Turkey’s military operation successfully continued with aerial and ground assistance.
“4 tanks, 5 cannons/MLRSs [Multi Launch Rocket System], 3 anti-tank weapons, 8 military vehicles, 2 machine gun vehicles, 2 armored vehicles were destroyed in the past 24 hours,” said the statement.
It added: “184 regime troops were neutralized as well.”
Turkish Defense Ministry Said about 2500 regime troops have been killed in three weeks and tens of tanks, missiles batteries have been destroyed and bombed out of service.
Turkey said that two more of its soldiers were killed Wednesday in a regime attack in Idlib.
Regime forces have killed more than 59 Turkish troops in the past month, including 34 soldiers killed last Thursday in a single airstrike.
Turkey has sent thousands of troops into the area to support Syrian insurgents holed up there, but hasn't been able to stop the Russian-backed Syrian government offensive to retake the Idlib province.
In their turn, Turkish-backed opposition forces seized a strategic town and a hilltop in the western countryside of Aleppo, local activists said Wednesday.
Backed by heavy artillery fire, the National Army has taken the town of Sheikh Aqeel and the al-Arqam hilltop northwest of Aleppo city.
Another attack in northern Syria was launched by the opposition fighters to retake Saraqeb, the strategic city two days after its fall to the Syrian regime's favour.
From six axes, the Sytian National Army began its battle to repel regime forces and allied Shiite militias from the town that sits on a major highway that links Syria's two largest cities, Damascus and Aleppo.
Activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Turkish drone attacks near Saraqeb killed 25 Syrian soldiers and allied pro-Iran militants.
AA, Zaman Al Wasl
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