8 Turkish troops die in Syria operation; Russian pilot slain
Associated Press Saturday, February 03, 2018
BEIRUT — Turkey said eight of its troops were killed Saturday in Ankara's military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia, the deadliest day in the two-week-old offensive in the enclave of Afrin, while in another part of Syria, al-Qaida-linked militants downed a Russian fighter jet, then shot and killed the pilot.
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