Syria Says 'Terrorist Infiltration' from Turkey Foiled
Syria foiled an operation by "terrorists" to infiltrate the country from neighboring Turkey, the official news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.
"Border guards last (Monday) night thwarted an attempted infiltration by armed terrorist groups from Turkey" in the Ain Bayda sector of Idlib province of northwest Syria, it said.
It added that an unspecified number of the 35 gunmen were wounded and the rest fled back into Turkey, without any casualties among the border guards.
"Cars were heard taking the wounded gunmen away on the Turkish side," SANA reported.
A rebel Free Syrian Army, based in Turkey and made up of army deserters, has been battling the security forces waging a crackdown on anti-regime protests that the United Nations says has cost more than 4,000 lives since mid-March.
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