From Al Jazeera English
Syria's information minister has lashed out at Turkey, accusing
Ankara of sending foreign fighters across the border to fight Syrian
government troops in President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland in
Latakia province.
Omran al-Zoubi told the state TV on Sunday that neighbouring Turkey
is facilitating the entry of "groups of foreigners, armed to their
teeth" into Latakia, where fighting is raging between Syrian government
forces and rebel fighters trying to oust Assad.
Recently, the Syrian government complained to the UN that
Ankara was providing cover to rebels crossing the border to Syrian soil.
Turkey is a NATO member that once had good ties with Syria. But the
two countries had a falling out over Ankara's support for the Syrian
opposition in the three-year-old conflict. Hostilities have flared along the border on several occasions and last week, Turkey shot down a Syrian fighter jet, saying it violated its airspace.
Damascus rejects Ankara's airspace violation allegations, saying that the plane was hit on Syrian airspace.
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