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A policeman and four soldiers were martyred in the southeastern Nusaybin town of Mardin province.
Security sources said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists detonated a bomb targeting a military vehicle that was passing on a road between Dicle and Fırat neighborhoods.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to start the withdrawal of forces from Syria starting Tuesday. Russia will however keep a military presence at the port of Tartus and at the Khmeimim airbase to observe ceasefire agreements.
“I consider the objectives that have been set for the Defense Ministry to be generally accomplished. That is why I order to start withdrawal of the main part of our military group from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic starting from tomorrow,” Putin said on Monday during a meeting with Shoigu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
A suicide car bomb went off near bus stops in the heart of Turkey’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and injuring around 125 others, officials said.
The blast occurred on the city’s main boulevard, close to Ankara’s main square and a park.
The Turkish military claimed on Saturday that it had killed 67 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in the Qandil mountains in the Kurdistan Region on Wednesday.
Targets included, according to Reuters, areas in Avasin, Basyan, Haftanin, Metina and Qandil. Turkey has often sent its air force to bomb PKK sanctuaries in those barren areas as part of its wider campaign to crackdown on the PKK in its own Kurdish-majority southeast.
Thirteen Kurdish militants and two Turkish soldiers have been killed during two days of fighting in restive southeastern Turkey, officials say.
The militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed on Monday when a firefight broke out in the town of Idil, which has been under a round-the-clock curfew since February 16 in an effort to root the rebels out.