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Turkish soldiers stand guard in Akcakale in the southern Sanliurfa province near the Turkish-Syria border, Oct. 4, 2012. Turkish artillery hit targets near Syria's Tel Abyad border town for a second day today, killing several Syrian soldiers according to activists and security sources, after a mortar bomb fired from the area killed five Turkish civilians. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey has no intention of going to war with Syria, hours after parliament authorized possible cross-border attacks.

Turkish soldiers secure border with Syria

Reuters reports — Turkey stepped up retaliatory artillery strikes on a Syrian border town on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers, while its parliament approved further military action in the event of another spillover of the Syrian conflict.

Seeking to unwind the most serious cross-border escalation in its 18-month-old crackdown on dissent, Damascus apologized through the United Nations for shelling which killed five civilians in southeast Turkey on Wednesday and said it would not happen again, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said. Full story…

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Comment author avatarjm-2044305

Is this a photograph? It looks like a frame, or capture from a video game to me.

    Reply#1 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 10:09 AM EDT
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