Syria war: Russian air strike kills Turkish soldiers
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The soldiers were supporting Syrian rebels in efforts to capture the city of
al-Bab from so-called Islamic State.
It is part of a broader offensive by Turkey to push IS and Kurdish fighters
away from Turkey's southern border.
Russia and Turkey, who back opposing sides in the war, have been jointly
targeting IS in air strikes recently.
A Russian aircraft attacked a building where some of the soldiers had been
deployed near al-Bab, the Turkish military said.
It had been planning to hit IS targets but "by accident three of our soldiers
were martyred when a building was bombed where our units were", it added.
Eleven other soldiers were wounded in the friendly fire incident on Thursday.
The Kremlin has issued a statement (in Russian) saying President Putin had,
in a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart, "expressed condolences over
a tragic incident which resulted in the deaths of several Turkish troops in
the al-Bab area".
The incident comes after a warming of ties between the two countries, which
had previously been strained after Turkey downed a Russian jet near the
Syrian border two years ago.
大致翻譯:
俄國戰機空襲al-Bab的一座建築物時，附近的3名土耳其士兵被炸死了，另外還有11名士兵受傷。
對此，普丁已經致電土耳其外長表示哀悼。